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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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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6 回复由Vien 'Quitonm编辑: 3/23/2013 3:33:27 AM
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11 回复One 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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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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1 回复Humanity 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 回复由Winy编辑: 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 回复由Bishosh编辑: 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 回复It 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 回复It 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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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.