Cloning

[Matty233]

This has probably been touched so many times but it's fun to hear everyone's opinion again...

Well, people are saying that we have the ability to clone a human being. I am strongly, strongly against that idea. I am an agnostic, and my main question about cloning is: do clones have souls? Now I know this could fade off into a different thread about souls instead, but let me give you my opinion on life. As I said, I'm agnostic, which means that I do not follow a religion but I do believe there is something after death, which involves souls. Whether we reincarnate or go to heaven/hell, we would need a soul after our physical self dies to continue the journey beyond. But cloning, which is making an exact replica of a human being, would it have a soul, or would it just be an "empty shell" or so to speak? If a clone dies, what happens?

But this is not the real reason for this thread. I am posting this to ask you all the obvious question: is cloning wrong? I think it is, to copy another human being's genetic dna is to steal their identity. And who knows, the goverment may just weed out the weak people and clone the stronger people (yes, it sounds Nazi-ish). Or what if you cloned an army of assassins or something and decided to take over the world? But even if extreme cases do not happen, I still believe that cloning should be banned worldwide. I am glad to hear that Canada and the U.S. have banned human cloning in their countries, but there are countries out there who would be willing to fund for a cloning device. But would you like to have an exact duplicate of yourself? Would you be willing to give up your name and identity to create your duplicate?

[EnragedSephiroth]

At 9/15/04 01:11 AM, Matty233 wrote:

:do clones have souls?

Only if you believe in a soul.

:: But this is not the real reason for this thread. I am posting this to ask you all the obvious question: is cloning wrong? I think it is, to copy another human being's genetic dna is to steal their identity. And who knows, the goverment may just weed out the weak people and clone the stronger people (yes, it sounds Nazi-ish).

Then why post something that sounds nazi-ish?

:Or what if you cloned an army of assassins or something and decided to take over the world? But even if extreme cases do not happen, I still believe that cloning should be banned worldwide. I am glad to hear that Canada and the U.S. have banned human cloning in their countries, but there are countries out there who would be willing to fund for a cloning device. But would you like to have an exact duplicate of yourself? Would you be willing to give up your name and identity to create your duplicate?

I already made a clone topic previously, people don't care much about cloning in this forum because it's been already debated before. So, is cloning wrong? It's all up to the clone I guess, he/she was the one that was cloned, if they suffer any psychological damage because of it, then yes they can deem it wrong, it all depends.

[Demosthenez]

Just like Frankenstein. Science always brings its problems and there will always be people to exploit. And making human life like this just seems kinda wierd. I could maybe see cloning happen, but it would be SOO messed up and I would rather have it left alone.

But, the creation of life for purely scientific reasons, like in stem cell research I am strongly against. Creating life to destroy it seems totally wrong. The only fetuses that should be used for research is aborted ones, even though that is pretty sad also, but not the same as creating and destroying human life for only science.

[Zellie]

i don't see the problem in cloning... for starters, it could save allot of lives...

[SIG-1]

Here is what i belive... No1 has a soul, no life after death, cloning is just making a copy of ur self!