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3/23/2013 1:21:29 AM
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What are your opinions on human cloning?
T4R. Would this be playing "God" in your eyes? I could see some people saying something like"Well we did it on animals so why can't we do it to Humans?" Well what do you guys think about the idea?
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all for it
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I wouldn't be against it. But if they were cloned, wouldn't their life-span be shorter?
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7 RepliesWe shouldn't do it. Humans shouldn't be able to create life.
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I would clone myself just to have him be like a son. I would raise him but once he turns twenty I would tell him the truth. Then see what arises from that.
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I don't feel really comfortable with the idea. Chances are the clones will end up being used as either some kind of freaky surrogate or as organ/body part factories. Creating clones of stillborn children may be a cool possibility (giving an unlucky child the chance to actually live) or perhaps using cloning as an alternate form of artificial insemination, but morality is a huge issue in terms of creating life. I'm mostly worried about humanity ending up with a literal army of clones, as in the Clone Wars. You know what that would mean? Jar-Jar.
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1 ReplyCloning myself another wang would be awesome.
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6 RepliesEdited by Vien 'Quitonm: 3/23/2013 3:33:27 AMHuman clothing is quite comfy...
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11 RepliesOne thing I would also like to ask is would you really consider them as a Human? Technically they are but I could see many people resenting clones for not being "real". Thoughts?
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3 RepliesClone soldiers and make the clones do the dirty work.
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It's fine. Clones are human, and I assume a clone would be treated as just a regular human. Just because a clone has the same DNA as another doesn't mean the clone isn't human. Identical twins have the same DNA, like clones, and they obviously considered human and part of society.
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Cloning for spare part's is fine Cloning people......questionable
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It seems ok.
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1 ReplyHumanity has been "playing god" ever since our first civilization popped up. That's not a valid argument. The real argument is that there's no reason to clone a human when we can clone organs, plus it's extremely unethical to simply use a living person as "spare parts".
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7 RepliesEdited by Winy: 3/23/2013 1:34:53 AMAnother thing to point out with these threads is the tossing around of the word "unnatural," which, as I perceive it, has zero inherent weight and is merely an arbitrary exclusion of human affairs from nature for zero rational causes. Exactly why is an ant colony creating an ant hill any more natural than a human village or city? Everything is "natural" in the sense that all occurrences are governed by natural laws and reasons, including whatever the hell humans decide to do in their laboratories. Clones would be no less natural than children born through sexual reproduction.
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2 RepliesEdited by Bishosh: 3/23/2013 1:32:36 AMStupid and shouldn't be done. We shouldnt even be playing around with anything that has to do with genetics. It only causes problems like GMO's, loss of diversity, and many other things; and that's not including the moral delema.
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5 RepliesIt isn't "playing God", it's asexual reproduction. Clones happen all the time in nature. It's nothing twisted, bizarre, or unnatural.
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1 ReplyIt just seems like one of those lines we don't cross. Like splicing a human and a chimpanzee. Actually splicing anything is wrong. You get my point. I don't have a sufficient answer other than its mortally wrong and makes the clone seem like less of a human and not unique.
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After playing EVE Online? I would LOVE to have a clone and transfer my consciousness to it. Immortality finally achieved.
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It depends entirely on what is intended to be done with the clones. There was a thread about this made a couple of days ago filled to the brim with incredibly foolish reasons to belittle and undermine the humanity of the clones, and there's probably going to be more here.
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I'm fine with it, but I don't want myself or anyone I know to be cloned. Hypocritical, I know.
