I felt like posting this email I received (with the authors permission), as I think it's close to the sort of response I wanted to get, feel free to give it a read.

"Hello there. I was rather intrigued by your Genpets concept and I felt
like sharing.

When I first heard about Genpets it was from a friend on DeviantArt.
I don't know how she had found the website, but she seemed to think
they were the real deal. I was one of the people who read through the
website horrified. I thought it couldn't possibly be true, that this
couldn't possibly fly in our modern, seemingly ethics-obsessed day
and age. Even more I was disgusted at the reactions of the others my
friend had shared this with, people who thought this was a great idea
and wanted to embrace it by owning one of these things.

I am a self-loathing human so I am predisposed to hate a lot of
things my species does. It didn't take me long to accept that Genpets
could very well be possible given the gross abuse of technology and
lesser-creatures already in practice. It was just an example of us
going too far... again.

As I prepared to type my concerned response to this, in my mind,
obscenity, I thought about my current job at a store called Waldo
Pets. I realized that maybe my concern over this was entirely
hypocritical being that I worked at place where we offer a
two-for-one deal on certain colors of gerbils, living breathing
animals. I had to stop and rationalize my own opinion for myself
saying that the albino gerbils were not only fairly natural creatures
but also free to roam their cages until picked up and taken to a home.
I typed and posted my comment still disgusted but now confused.

How much difference is there really between a glass aquarium and a
plastic package? The gerbils are still bred and born for the specific
purpose of being a "pet," a form of entertainment or occasionally
companionship for a human caretaker or "owner." Still I attempt to
rationalize, being an "owner" myself, that the gerbils are still
entirely different than the concept of Genpet-like creatures. But
even as I type this now I'm in debate with myself once again.

Now knowing that Genpets are fictitious, I am so relieved but I
wonder how much relief that should really warrant. It's only time
before something like this becomes an issue. Bioengineering already
is. The discovery of the truth behind Genpets hasn't stopped my
questioning. This is still a very real issue for me considering how
much it has made me question myself. Sure, it's a waste and misuse of
technology that can be put to so many more-beneficial things. But from
an ethical standpoint, is it really so bad? Or does it just show us
how bad we already are? What is bad anyway? It's confusing. My
opinions and ethics are in question at my own hands.

The statement you've made with your art is, well, intense for lack of
better words. Speaking as a 16 year-old novice of an artist, I know
how difficult making any sort of statement is. For that, I admire
you. But mostly I thank you. I thank you for making me question not
only mankind and its potential, but myself as part of it. Clearly,
things are not so clear.

Sincerely, Caranne"