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Personally, I'm all for cloning parts of people, but there's something that makes me uneasy about cloning whole people. Not sure why...

There IS a problem with cloning whole people. At the point we are, as far as scientific advancement goes, we cannot guarantee a perfect clone. The clones might end up with extra limbs, or a deformed brain, etc. Even when we first tried cloning the sheep, the first tries came out wrong. Can u imagine how cruel it is to bring an organism into the world that cant function correctly?

At 9/3/04 01:08 PM, PWeN wrote: I am for the cloneing of animals such as cows, or pigs. Perhaps this would alow more food resources into the populous, insted of just relying on breeding. More food in the world would solve a lot of problems.

Cloning a cow would be too costly when you consider buying bull ejaculate in bulk and inseminating many heffers at the same time...

Perhaps cloning could aid the recovery of animals that are becoming extinct, such as the panda bear.

At 9/3/04 07:39 AM, ZeroAsALimit wrote: The old playing god argument is silly, as whenever we make decisions or non-decisions, we ARE playing god.

That's called freedom of choice not Deus Ex Homosapien (God outside of man).

i personally dont have a problem with cloning since they are able to cure disieses. but since they test it on fetuses is why i think its wrong. im just saying they should find some other approach to it.

Actually they test it on zygotes, not fetuses. There are too many cells to manipulate at the fetus stage.

At 9/3/04 11:55 PM, FatherVenom wrote: Actually they test it on zygotes, not fetuses. There are too many cells to manipulate at the fetus stage.

well, ive heard by other people and on tv that they tested on both. but i still think they should try to find another approach.

Oh shit, I hope they fail with cloning. Yes the organs, missing limbs, etc. is an awesome idea, but come we all know some underground secret shit will happen, conspiracys whatever, you know what I mean

At 9/4/04 12:03 AM, Soul_Specter wrote: well, ive heard by other people and on tv that they tested on both. but i still think they should try to find another approach.

You are right that they tried a few tests on fetuses, but those ended up not working. There is no other approach.

At 9/4/04 12:46 AM, Fryl0ck wrote: but come we all know some underground secret shit will happen, conspiracys

It will already happen. The cat has already been let out of the bag. The only thing that stopping research will do at this point is make secret jobs more dangerous.

And... Topic closes.