Quote Originally Posted by pendell View Post
People can be really morally flexible when they have a reason to be. So while they might look askance at creating a dragon (say) purely for fun's sake, if there was a really good reason for it, they'd come around. By "really good reason", I mean "it saves lives, or otherwise makes everyone's life better."
Or you convince the government it would have military applications. (And that the Other Side have already started their own research).