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From an ethical standpoint, there is no reason to assert a human being created from re-embryonized adult stem cells should be any more enslaveable than any child of any parents or the younger of any pair of twins.

... of course, the flip-side of the coin is that for a certain segment of the pro-life movement, using these cells as test subjects will be equivalent to intentionally fertilizing human egg cells and then using those as test subjects.

Ethics have always been fungible when the hunger is strong.

My comment was mostly in jest.

From some ethical standpoint, it's absolutely fine to engineer some creature for slavery, as long as you make it ugly and forbid anyone from discovering how many chromosomes it has, and life can be much better than it is now. (Reference work of fiction omitted to prevent spoilers)

The line has always been "is it like us?", for any value of "like us" that can be assessed, so yes.

Even today there will be situations where the difference between effective slavery and freedom is the country on your passport (or lack of it)

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