I'm ok, You're a CLONE!

[Balerion]

Hammy, it's a moral issue. Granted, keeping a clone in some form of stasis (if that's even possible, though it will no doubt be in the future) would allow for nearly fool-proof organ transplants and blood transfusions, but the question of the fate of the clone is what makes it a problem.

But fear not, Hammy. If it hasn't already been done (and it may very well have been in another country), then someone will eventually do it. You can't keep science down, regardless of what the world community thinks of a certain practice.

 

[Mr. Hamtastic]

Bah, what makes it a being with any rights? It'd take some genetic engineering, but if you could make clones sans brain, would that be ok?

 

[Enmos]

Bah, what makes it a being with any rights? It'd take some genetic engineering, but if you could make clones sans brain, would that be ok?

Sure

 

[Balerion]

Bah, what makes it a being with any rights? It'd take some genetic engineering, but if you could make clones sans brain, would that be ok?

Headless clones? Sure. Don't know how that would work, but why not?

 

[Enmos]

Headless clones? Sure. Don't know how that would work, but why not?

For organ harvesting. Apparently they can make them.

 

[Quigly]

If you cloned your wife, would you automatically be married to the clone? Would your wife be jealous of the clone?

 

[Balerion]

For organ harvesting. Apparently they can make them.

Then why don't they?

 

[Mr. Hamtastic]

Not headles, no brain. If you are covered in burns, just have your brain transferred. It's one way to reach clinical immortality.

 

[Enmos]

If you cloned your wife, would you automatically be married to the clone? Would your wife be jealous of the clone?

Identical twins..

 

[Enmos]

Not headles, no brain. If you are covered in burns, just have your brain transferred. It's one way to reach clinical immortality.

That doesn't work. Not yet, maybe not ever.

 

[Enmos]

Then why don't they?

Because of the law.

 

[Mr. Hamtastic]

If the clone was your dead wife's replacement, what would it matter? Haven't they studied making brain tapes by the way?

 

[Balerion]

Because of the law.

No, I mean, what's the moral argument against headless cloning?

 

[Mr. Hamtastic]

Human cloning doesn't work, maybe not ever, but we can look at it to develop opinions on it.

 

[Enmos]

No, I mean, what's the moral argument against headless cloning?

Ask the theists that. They are the ones running the governments.

 

[Balerion]

If the clone was your dead wife's replacement, what would it matter? Haven't they studied making brain tapes by the way?

That's just creepy. We have the capacity to grieve and move on, and we shouldn't try to supplant it with a clone that would never truly be the person you married.

 

[Mr. Hamtastic]

Brainless, JDawg.

 

[Balerion]

Ask the theists that. The are the ones running the governments.

I was just curious if any moral argument against it had been offered. I'm assuming not, by your answer.

 

[Mr. Hamtastic]

Why wouldn't it? If they could have all of the dead person's experiences and thoughts, what makes them someone else?

 

[Balerion]

Brainless, JDawg.

Oh, you mean switching the brain over? That would be different, but as Enmos said, that doesn't work today, and may never work.