Comments on: Ethical Dilemma from Grade School http://www.dcrblogs.com/2009/02/22/ethical-dilemma-from-grade-school/ Motivating readers to believe, act, and achieve by looking at life with wit, wisdom, and engaging creativity Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:18:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Pet Snakes http://www.dcrblogs.com/2009/02/22/ethical-dilemma-from-grade-school/#comment-28011 Pet Snakes Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:06:39 +0000 http://www.dcrblogs.com/?p=1602#comment-28011 It wouldn't be a problem at all in reality. I know the conditions you lay out are a little different, but here are a few facts. 1) Snakes will eat frozen/thawed food so when someone dies they could be iced and then defrosted when the time came. 2) Snakes can't catch human diseases so even if the people died of a horrible illness it wouldn't effect the snake 3) A snake large enough to eat a human would produce copious amounts of venom so you wouldn't need all that many of them. 4) Many people would gladly give their dead bodies for the sake of science. Just like they give their organs. But suppose they had to eat live people and nothing dead for the venom to be effective... Rapists, murderers, pedophiles, people who choose to end their own lives (euthanasia), etc would all be viable candidates. Figure one meal every 2.5 to 3 weeks for the snake. You wouldn't need tons of them. It wouldn’t be a problem at all in reality. I know the conditions you lay out are a little different, but here are a few facts.

1) Snakes will eat frozen/thawed food so when someone dies they could be iced and then defrosted when the time came.

2) Snakes can’t catch human diseases so even if the people died of a horrible illness it wouldn’t effect the snake

3) A snake large enough to eat a human would produce copious amounts of venom so you wouldn’t need all that many of them.

4) Many people would gladly give their dead bodies for the sake of science. Just like they give their organs.

But suppose they had to eat live people and nothing dead for the venom to be effective… Rapists, murderers, pedophiles, people who choose to end their own lives (euthanasia), etc would all be viable candidates. Figure one meal every 2.5 to 3 weeks for the snake. You wouldn’t need tons of them.

]]> By: Jessica (Hey Lola) http://www.dcrblogs.com/2009/02/22/ethical-dilemma-from-grade-school/#comment-28000 Jessica (Hey Lola) Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:33:53 +0000 http://www.dcrblogs.com/?p=1602#comment-28000 Betcha people would donate their bodies in the name of science. I'd donate my dead body to a snake if it produced a cure all venom. Like on the back of your license...you could be an organ and tissue donor and then give the rest to the snakes. Plus, you could freeze the excess because snakes can totally be trained to eat frozen food...I mean, you'd have to warm it up and all but you know...it doesn't have to be fresh necessarily. This is a really creepy question and I totally jumped on it. Now I'm creepy. Great. Betcha people would donate their bodies in the name of science. I’d donate my dead body to a snake if it produced a cure all venom. Like on the back of your license…you could be an organ and tissue donor and then give the rest to the snakes. Plus, you could freeze the excess because snakes can totally be trained to eat frozen food…I mean, you’d have to warm it up and all but you know…it doesn’t have to be fresh necessarily.

This is a really creepy question and I totally jumped on it. Now I’m creepy. Great.

]]> By: Eric "Speedcat Hollydale" http://www.dcrblogs.com/2009/02/22/ethical-dilemma-from-grade-school/#comment-27997 Eric "Speedcat Hollydale" Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:17:35 +0000 http://www.dcrblogs.com/?p=1602#comment-27997 I would create genetic hybrids I would create genetic hybrids

]]> By: Eric "Speedcat Hollydale" http://www.dcrblogs.com/2009/02/22/ethical-dilemma-from-grade-school/#comment-27996 Eric "Speedcat Hollydale" Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:17:15 +0000 http://www.dcrblogs.com/?p=1602#comment-27996 I am running with Meleah !!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I am running with Meleah !!!!!!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

]]> By: meleah rebeccah http://www.dcrblogs.com/2009/02/22/ethical-dilemma-from-grade-school/#comment-27994 meleah rebeccah Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:02:40 +0000 http://www.dcrblogs.com/?p=1602#comment-27994 You lost me at the word SNAKE. *runs away terrified* You lost me at the word SNAKE.

*runs away terrified*

]]> By: David http://www.dcrblogs.com/2009/02/22/ethical-dilemma-from-grade-school/#comment-27993 David Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:31:54 +0000 http://www.dcrblogs.com/?p=1602#comment-27993 While perhaps the idea of a man eating snake is a little unlikely, I don't think the premise is too alien. What if instead of a snake, the cure all venom was something that could only be created by taking the life of a human and using part of their body to make it. This kind of idea really does create a moral dilemma. While perhaps the idea of a man eating snake is a little unlikely, I don’t think the premise is too alien. What if instead of a snake, the cure all venom was something that could only be created by taking the life of a human and using part of their body to make it. This kind of idea really does create a moral dilemma.

]]> By: teeni http://www.dcrblogs.com/2009/02/22/ethical-dilemma-from-grade-school/#comment-27992 teeni Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:32:45 +0000 http://www.dcrblogs.com/?p=1602#comment-27992 I would feed the death-row criminals to the snakes. However, I would first inject them so that they would die humanely before being eaten by the snake. And I would get a lot of funds raised so that work could be done on the synthesizing of the venom or the study of it so we could learn to reproduce it and not have to resort to feeding people to the snakes for too long. I would feed the death-row criminals to the snakes. However, I would first inject them so that they would die humanely before being eaten by the snake. And I would get a lot of funds raised so that work could be done on the synthesizing of the venom or the study of it so we could learn to reproduce it and not have to resort to feeding people to the snakes for too long.

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