Cloning to study Nature vs Nuture

[Neurocomp2003]

Enlight of the new studies in Korea.
Do you think it is amoral to use cloning to study Nature vs Nuture?? If cloning was allowed I think this could bring new light
onto the nature vs nuture debate.

1) We could really test how much does a fetus experience in the womb.

2) We can place them all around the world, in different cultures, different social classes, different eating habits etc.

I personally side with 80-90% nuture and 20-10% Nature and I think this would help greatly. What do you guys think

 

[Neurocomp2003]

I posted this in another forum...and some one brought up the twin study.

Two things to note....
1) most twins(if not all) are born in the same womb. I don't know how much experience there is in teh womb but you can't deny there is or there isn't any.
2) most twins grow up with the same parents for a period of time.
most studies I know grow up with the same parents in the first 2-3 years.

But with clones you will not have this issue

 

[Dr Lou Natic]

Yep, its basic scientific method, five clones raised under different conditions, raise one in a pure white box on a drip(thats the "control") and study the differences.

So much knowledge could come from such an experiment.

 

[spuriousmonkey]

I don't really see how separating clones would be more unethical than separating twins. So just use twins if you are so curious.

 

[Neurocomp2003]

yeah but twins you only got 2....and its not separating clones that is amoral
its the actual cloning that is currently amoral.
But inorder to enlighten us should the rule be waved for such experiments?

 

[spuriousmonkey]

yeah but twins you only got 2....and its not separating clones that is amoral
its the actual cloning that is currently amoral.
But inorder to enlighten us should the rule be waved for such experiments?

Why would it not be immoral to separate brothers and sisters? Do you think clones are not related to each other?