Reply #24: Well, that's really the point of it isn't it? [View All]

[Lyric]

I suppose I was giving more of a "worst-case" scenario in regard to mental ability, but what I said would still fully apply even if their mental abilities were the same as our own. Unless we were prepared to give them the same rights that we enjoy, and the same liberties (which would include the liberty to REFUSE to be experimented-on or tested) then we have no business bringing them back to life. It's not like we could re-create the species AS a species. There isn't enough intact Neanderthal DNA left to provide the kind of genetic variation that would be needed for the species to survive in the long-term.

We are just too barbaric and crude to handle that situation ethically. And the treatment for said Neanderthal humans would be even worse if they DID turn out to be less capable of intelligent thought than we are. They'd probably be treated like zoo animals, and that would be nothing short of an abomination.