Moreover, the existence of a borderline human/non-human chimera would generate confusion regarding our existing relationships as we were forced to revisit the general question of whether being a human being really is necessary and sufficient for full moral status. Such confusion, Robert and Baylis say, “threatens the social fabric in untold ways; countless social institutions, structures, and practices depend upon the moral distinction drawn between human and nonhuman animals” (2003, 10). In these ways, then, “the creation of novel beings that are part human and part nonhuman is sufficiently threatening to the social order that for many this is sufficient reason to prohibit any crossing of species boundaries involving human beings” (ibid., 10).