Recently in the news there has been talk of a baby clone. Although experts doubt that its true, this could have incredible consequences if they're wrong. I can't see any way to justify the cloning of a human. Even if the child grew up to be mentally and physically normal, he/she would have horrible emotional issues to deal with, not to mention the constant observation the child would be under. Any reactions?
human cloning to me is just pointless, stupid, waste of time and money. cloning organs is good, i agree. but honestly, cloning animals and humans...what use is there in that. we should be putting money towards better things like saving the environment.
It's ok I know you didn't realise the implications of hat you're saying. It's easy with the big deal being made about cloning to think it's something completely new and alien. In fact it's nothing more or less than twinning.
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quote: I think that cloning could be a very beneficial tool in the military and other places which require people to risk there lives. I mean look at star wars man! Besides if they passed on we could always clone them and bring them back right!
I find this upsetting because as an identical triplet I came from the same egg as my two sisters. This means that I am genetically identical to them and am, in fact a naturally-occurring clone. What you are saying implies that my life has no worth. I might as well go kill myself now because there's two of me on this Earth already, right? I realise you're probably kidding but please don't say stuff like that even for a joke. Reading that is hard to take no matter how lightly it's meant.
quote: I most certainly do not support killing a life (even a cloned one) just for organs.
You're damn right not 'even' a cloned one!
I am pretty sure that they are not thinking of growing human clones just for their organs, like you are thinking of, because at least from my perspective it'd be murder. I've heard of plans for growing cloned organs and certainly from what I've heard it'd all be done without cloning a whole human.
quote: Also the baby that was clone what if it has feelings just like ours, acts and feels like a human being, I would't want someone that real to be locked up in a lab to be tested every now and then and that's what those people will do. I just don't think it's right But what one of you said about making a army out of clones, that's a good idea, no one would get killed or hurt if they do that but I'm against WAR also so I wouldn't even want a army to begin with. Well Bye N Have a nice,wonderful, cheerful day
Oh yeah. Thanks. I'm having a nice wonderful cheerful day all right. I really feel like a piece of sh*t now. My life is worthless. I'm glad that I have feelings 'like' a real human being, that's some consolation.
It's a good job I've got my own opinions about this or it could all be a major knock to my self esteem, ya know? Because no matter what you say I am a real individual, a real person, and so would any clone be whether they were created artificially, or naturally like me. I don't think that artificial cloning of a human being is right because it only leads to bad places, but you are talking of clones like they are aliens or photocopied humans. You forget that they occur as twins and triplets and any other multiple birth and are as human as anybody. Please try to think of my feelings in future!
quote:Yeah you could prolly grow a human ear on a mouse, but the plumbing is wrong to put unto a human. and no. the only way to do it is by growing the Human.
i think that you'd be mighty surprised if you actually read any of the scientific literature out there.
I'm not going to say cloning is bad nor good because I don't have much facts behind such a thing. I do have some information but that isn't enough to give one real, soild, answer in what I think of this. At this point the information I do have kind of makes me go agaisnt it. I mean no one has the real right to make a life and kill a life for the sake of sicence. Only The Eminence God has that right. How does anyone really know that these clones are safe for everyone? Also the baby that was clone what if it has feelings just like ours, acts and feels like a human being, I would't want someone that real to be locked up in a lab to be tested every now and then and that's what those people will do. I just don't think it's right But what one of you said about making a army out of clones, that's a good idea, no one would get killed or hurt if they do that but I'm against WAR also so I wouldn't even want a army to begin with. Well Bye N Have a nice,wonderful, cheerful day <RuByZ><Cindy>
Yeah you could prolly grow a human ear on a mouse, but the plumbing is wrong to put unto a human. and no. the only way to do it is by growing the Human.
I may be wrong about this, I don't know all the facts, but can't you grow spare parts without cloning a whole human being. I remember hearing something a while ago about growing a human ear on a mouse. But if I am wrong about being able to grow things without cloning a whole human, then I most certainly do not support killing a life (even a cloned one) just for organs.
Just so y'all know, you cant clone organs. You clone the Human, Kill the Clone, And use his organs... That one right there gets my personall Two Thumbs Down. Way down.
Clones for war, What!?. You would to breed an entire army, it would be another form of slavery.
They shoudlnt do it. Period. And if they do they should at least get all the info before they do. If this child is really a clone (I seriosly doubt it) it is expected to have physicall problems. In a nutshell cloning is taking a the nucleus of the cell of the subjest (person being cloned) and being inserted into a female Gamete. The problem with this is that the nucleus of every cell on that babies body is already as old as the subjescts cells were. so things like Artheritus, Back pain, Bad Vision, And all the other things accompinied with old age will occur earlier in the life of the baby. They observed this in Dolly the Sheep. and other cloned animals.
Yes Scientific Breakthroughs will occur from this, But it is not fair to the baby.
Dumars - Maybe I'm missing your point, but were you kidding about the whole thing or just the organs? Clones are still/would still be humans with valuable lives, and a clone could never bring a person's individuality back.
I think that cloning could be a very beneficial tool in the military and other places which require people to risk there lives. I mean look at star wars man! Besides if they passed on we could always clone them and bring them back right! I know of a one thing that hampers a cloned human and its that they deteriorate after so long and that would be nasty. J/K I know of the benefits of cloned organs but a whole human is a little far fetched. If they can actually do this with scientific proof then I want to know why they havent made a teleporter or even a starship that can travel in space and have the people be suspended in animation only later to wake up on a planet that resembles our own but is run by monkeys! Thats what I want to see.
I think stem cell research should be allowed and even encouraged(maybe thats the wrong word) but cloning is a very scary thing and sorta stupid too. I mean, can you imagine what it would be like to choose what traits your child will have? Ugh. I agree with bex - its sick. I also feel sorry for the kid (which i don't think there is) because he/she will basically be kept under glass her whole life (it is a girl right?)and will always be set apart.
Just because we can do something doesn't mean we should. Cloning organs, for example, has a valid medical purpose in transplants etc. so it's possible to argue we should accept it (I don't know enough about this to form a full opinion on it myself). But artificially cloning a human being has no medical purpose whatsoever except to satisfy our (rather sick) curiosity about how much we can mess with genes before it all goes disasterously wrong.
Genetic engineering is a scary business. There's a particular gene responsible for aging although it has not been specifically identified. If that was tampered with then one day people could stay forever young. Potentially and in theory. Which gets more disturbing the more I think about it.
As far as human cloning goes it's not as if it's a new phenomenon. Identical multiple births are clones but because of mutations and environment, they usually end up as very different people. Like a lot of advances in science it does have formidable possibilities and I can see it all going terribly wrong… I've read Brave New World and I can see it's possible. I hope mankind treads carefully.
More groups than just clonaid have the technology to possibly clone humans, and unfortunatly with something as international as this it would be impossible to regulate. Also, though most people seem to be against human clones, not everyone agrees (and I'm not referring to radical groups). With this most recent news on a human clone, it has been a frequent topic on my local news stations. The reporters went around the city interviewing people as to their reactions, and one woman believed that it was just the advancement of science. Personally, I think science takes things to far, and just because we have the power to do something doesn't mean that we should.
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