I want to hear your thoughts on cloning, and stem cell research.

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Originally posted by clpo13:
Cloning is not so much meant to reproduce human beings as it is to replicate organs and such. Why wait forever to get a heart transplant when you can grow one from the patient's existing heart tissue that, as an added bonus, doesn't run the risk of being rejected by the body?

Thank you!

Cloning is not so much meant to reproduce human beings as it is to replicate organs and such. Why wait forever to get a heart transplant when you can grow one from the patient's existing heart tissue that, as an added bonus, doesn't run the risk of being rejected by the body?

I know but we should still do the research not outlaw it cause of these paranoid mobs.

We're a far cry from actually being able to clone human beings. There are things in the cells of living beings called telomeres. With each cell division, the telomeres shorten.

Let's say I wanted to clone myself. They would take a cell that had been dividing for the past 19 year and that cell would be the basis for the new human. Thus, that new human's cells would have basically already aged 19 years. Until they can come up with a method to keep the telomeres from shortening (which is basically why people eventually die...), cloning for most intensive purposes is pretty useless.

It's true...look it up.

Cloning and stem cell research should be done and researched to the highest level. People prople is they watch to much sci-fi(yes the star wars geek said 'to much sci-fi') and imagine all these doomsday things well i say clone away human cloning research ecspecially.

I completely disagree with cloning. Cloning will not help people grieve with the loss of pets, or people if we get that far. Studies have shown that the clone will have a completely different personality than the original. Someone could have a sweet german shepherd and then, when it dies and they get a clone, the clone is aggressive. This will make the heartache worse. Cloning is just asking for trouble, in my opinion. At first, it could work well, but eventually, people will abuse the privelege.

Cloning wouldn't be totally crazy. We could do it but I think it would cause too much trouble. Could you imagine what it would be like if there were two or three of every person? It would be crazy. How would you know who was who? Our population would go up a lot. We would lack money and houses for everyone. If you're intrested in that stuff you should read The house of The Scorpion. i'm reading it right now it's really good.

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Originally posted by risika2004:
Stop reviving this thread.

'Nuff said.

Stop reviving this thread.

I say that cloning is bad, but stem cell research that is good because it would be awesome if everyone can live longer an stuff and it sounds very interesting

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Originally posted by RockFaerie:
I want to hear your thoughts on cloning, and stem cell research.

I feel that it is ok to clone, but we need to have limits for examle, if we need to clone to save ahumans life then yes i think it would be fine. But if we are going to clone a human just so we can take it apart then no thats wrong. It justs depends on how we yous our power.

Also Many feel that it is wrong to play the role of God. Well if God “knows all and see’s all” then he knew we were going to find out how to clone. And if he didn’t want use to clone he would not make us as intelligent as we are now.

You all have to realize, whether or not we clone, cloning will happen. Other countries will and already are taking advantage of major technologies like this. If N Korea has a secret nuclear plant, who's to say they haven't cloned humans, too. We have the technology, but we aren't using it. If we want to remain a superpower, we will need to keep up.

You guys need to recognize that there is a difference between adult stem cell research and fetal stem cell research.
Adult stem cell research has been occuring for many years with positive results and is not at issue, whereas fetal stem cell research is a new field with very few success that is a political hot topic because of it's link to abortion. I am for adult stem cell research and against fetal stem cell research, as the science shows that we have no need to research fetal stem cells when adult stem cells are abundant and proven to have more successes.
As for cloning, I think that it is ethically wrong to create human life outside of the context of man and woman coupling (even in an artificial capacity, like egg fertilization). We should not be playing God and altering genes to make superkids.

It seems that an opposition to cloning is one thing that both the right and left agree on. Interesting. Who, then, is for cloning?

Stem Cell Research (SCR) is wrong just as in arbortion is wrong. I don't think that SCR should be outlawed, which it isn't, I just don't think that it should be funded by the government and consequently taxpayers who may disagree with it, which it isn't. If private funding is put towards SCR then fine, let it happen. There is not concrete proof of the advancements offered by SCR, all we have is John Edwards promising that if he gets elected Christopher Reeve will get out of his chair and walk. The liberals promise us that there will be immediate benifits, but we were promised the same thing when we started the human genome project. It is a gamble, could turn out right or could not turn out right. Life should not be taken for scientific gambling.

Jam, what is your stand on stem cell research?

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I definetely agree with ya'll in that cloning is bad.

yeah, it is bad..

I definetely agree with ya'll in that cloning is bad. I did an extensive research paper on it, and it's amazing the amount of information you find on people that are for cloning. Personally, I feel that cloning will lead to Eugenics, something that should have been buried along time ago.