In my opinion individual rights just about always trump collective rights. About the only exceptions I could think about are when you're talking about minor rights for the individual and very fundamental rights for the society, but I'm hard-pressed to even come up with a good example that doesn't boil down to infringement of the rights of many individuals. The right of society (or even individuals) to advance knowledge does not trump the individual rights to life and liberty, and yet this is exactly what is proposed.
Over the past ten years we have seen the erosion of individual rights in many Western countries. I'm thinking that a neanderthal child will be born, somewhere, in the next hundred years. A question might be whether it occurs in a public lab or a corporate lab. With corporations now allowed to patent genomes, a human-compatible immune system with complete immunity to several of our peskier diseases might be damned attractive. Maybe neanderthals have a better mechanism for processing cholesterol? Wouldn't it be nice to know, and think of the money we could make?
A pertinent discussion might be: what should the legal punishment be for bringing an extinct hominid back to life with no ethical oversight? I'd say it's a crime against humanity on par with NAZI experimentation.
-Joe
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