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To be a creature, whether one that wriggles or hops or hugs or stings, one must first be created. There appear to be a great number of widely embraced techniques for baby making of various sorts, many of which humankind has been perfecting pretty much since there’s been a humankind. Beyond the usual, if possibly over-hyped practice of populating whole planets (or at least the one we can get our hands on) with dominant and potentially dangerous life forms that look just like ourselves, we’ve been working diligently for thousands of years to maneuver other living things around us to better suit our own needs, too. Agriculture and animal husbandry, and as our tech has advanced, stem cell manipulation and DNA sequencing, may all be well and good, and perfectly acceptable ways to address Mother Nature’s clear lack of imagination in not autonomously having produced wiener-shaped dogs or a pancreas that lives in a bowl, or phosphorescent glowy pigs, or a mouse with a human ear on it’s back. In fact, there may be untold benefits to be reaped from that goat they made in Canada that squirts spider webs instead of milk, but you gots to ask, where is the line?