We can't study cloning humans? Why not? Whether or not they have any legal rights is a seperate issue. Cloning technology just seems to be a good idea. "Mommy died when I was 2, so Daddy had them make me a NEW Mommy. I can't tell the difference!"
I'm ok, You're a CLONE!
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But studying the cloning of animals is going ahead full steam. It is only a matter of time when we will be hearing of a cloned human.
Yet it is illegal in the US. I want to know why. Legalization would appear to speed it along.
What is illegal in the US? Cloning of animals has been done in the US already.
Cloning of humans is illegal in the US.
Enmos-Why? Is there an actual scientific reason, or just one based on "right" and "wrong"?
Cloning of humans is illegal worldwide not just in the US.
Enmos
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Why should it not ? What is your argument ?
"Price, that's the difference!"
Pro-human cloning reasons:
1. handy replacement for loss of loved ones
2. freely available organs
3. Less fears from loss of life, allowing more "Death defying" stunts.
4. Experimentation.
5. Cheap labor
6. Good Cannon-fodder
7. Solution to starvation in a pinch
Probably more, but these seem strong enough reasons to me.
1. handy replacement for loss of loved ones
2. freely available organs
3. Less fears from loss of life, allowing more "Death defying" stunts.
4. Experimentation.
5. Cheap labor
6. Good Cannon-fodder
7. Solution to starvation in a pinch
Probably more, but these seem strong enough reasons to me.
Enmos
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So your wife would suddenly a baby you'd have to take care of. I don't see what the solution here it.
Besides, the clone will not be your wife. More like her long lost identical twin.
I agree. See my previous post.
The clone wouldn't be you. See 1.
I don't see your point.
This is a reason to outlaw it.
There will be even more unemployed people.
There will be the same problems as we have now with agricultural crops. Figure it out.
They would all have to sterilized probably against their will, which is inhumane.
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Grow em, cook em, eat em.
Enmos
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Hammie: so an exact brain map match would not provide the same memories? baby? couldn't this be overcome using HGH and other as yet undiscovered techniques?
> That's not possible. HGH ?
Hammie: Why experiment on animals, when you can have an average human to experiment on?
> But we are talking about cloning. I'm against any form of cloning with which a complete live creature is created.
Hammie: That's why you make them a slave race, and all female or male
> Unethical.
Hammie: Cheap soldiers a la star wars
> Unethical.
> That's not possible. HGH ?
Hammie: Why experiment on animals, when you can have an average human to experiment on?
> But we are talking about cloning. I'm against any form of cloning with which a complete live creature is created.
Hammie: That's why you make them a slave race, and all female or male
> Unethical.
Hammie: Cheap soldiers a la star wars
> Unethical.
One , two , three or more...where will it end...if ever. Think about it if there were 5 exact replicas of yourself and one commits a murder how do we tell the one that did it when the fingerprints and DNA all match?
Isn't ethical relative? Pragmatically, ethics are all about the result. It's nice to be all feel-goody about things, but that's an expensive luxury, especially if it shuts down scientific or medical exploration.
That's why Clones should be built from the ground up to be non-descript, or replacements for the dead or dying.
Enmos
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No.
Sam-This is why it needs to be explored scientifically more thoroughly.