Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-217.118.81.27-20130902124829/@comment-1672596-20151208130920

178.11.2.142 wrote: Well i guess if the lower half of your body is replaced with artificial parts or you turn into a cyborg before hitting puberty you will never be able to procreate. Like Motoko in Ghost in the Shell... Well in my opinion that is not really something to be grieving about, they have the same possibilities as homosexuals to get children(adoption, surrogate mother, sperm donation). And if you don't love a child because it's "not" biologically related to you, I don't think you really love your child, you are rather concerned about getting your DNA into another generation. And by the way in evolution it is explained that all lifeforms are related, and humans as a race are even closer related to eachother. So why should i care about being the "father" if we are either way more or less biologically related? The most important to me is that the life form is as self-aware as a human.

And about the artificial semen... i don't think that this is possible... 1. The human DNA seems to be too complex and unexplored 2. Can you really call a child that is created by artificial sperm/ovule biologically closer related to you than adoptiong a child? I think the answer to the latter is rather philosophical and depends on if you call your cyborg body your body or your former organic body your body... or if the personality of people is more important to you...

And if it is about sexual pleasure and aesthetics I guess that it will be possible to replace your genitals artificially(even with very sensetive nerves). Well... if they contuine to work on cyborgs bodies to make life as a cyborg more human... In all fairness, your comment about DNA concerns is pretty much what the first MGS pushed, even implying that there's no real love for children so much as just wanting to ensure your DNA is passed into the future, and to a lesser extent was pushed in MGS2 and even MGS3. It even went as far as to have a rather tasteless statement about how Alaskan field mice eat the young of any babies that aren't their own. To say little about how Psycho Mantis claimed that the passing of DNA was "selfish".