what's your say on cloning?

Darkside Heartless · Post by **Darkside Heartless** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:44 pm

Personally, cloning isn't always evil. If you make a hundred copys of yourself, yes that's wrong. If you make one or two and place them in good homes and see if they live normal lives, then it's the pursuit of knowledge, not barbarism.

Darktalyn1 · Post by **Darktalyn1** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 1:46 pm

if they can successfully clone jessica alba then cloning can't be all that bad

kurupt · Post by **kurupt** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 2:25 pm

cloning organs to replace ones gone bad is a good thing in my book, cloning me is bad. why? the more me's out there, the less ladies there are for me!

Topher · Post by **Topher** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 2:42 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by kurupt:
cloning organs to replace ones gone bad is a good thing in my book, cloning me is bad. why? the more me's out there, the less ladies there are for me!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

You're thinking about it wrong. It's a higher precentage of ladies for you.

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 3:30 pm

Anything from science has to be evil.

Darkside Heartless · Post by **Darkside Heartless** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 4:01 pm

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Tetrad:
Anything from science has to be evil.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Anything? how about computers? Descent 1,2,3?
electronic thermal underware?

kurupt · Post by **kurupt** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:32 pm

i'm the only me i care about, the other me's are on their own.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:23 pm

Cloning of humans is bound to turn up problems (anyone remember Frankenstein?!). If cloning of body parts were possible, that would be good... get rid of the whole "rejection" problem if you could clone them from source.

The problem with cloning is that it has to be done on the cellular level. Which means that you use a cell of the organism to get a DNA sample, but then the organism has to grow and be born. That's not exactly the same as sticking a liver in a copy machine.

Kyouryuu · Post by **Kyouryuu** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:04 pm

The world's population cannot be taken care of as it is, let alone clones.

Will Robinson · Post by **Will Robinson** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:17 pm

The music industry has been putting out clones for a couple decades now. Look how well that's turned out

Tyranny · Post by **Tyranny** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 11:00 pm

haha@Will, thats a good one, I'll have to remember that

Pandora · Post by **Pandora** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 6:37 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Darktalyn1:
if they can successfully clone jessica alba then cloning can't be all that bad <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

oh hahaha ... true!

Drakona · Post by **Drakona** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 1:27 pm

A clone of you is no more you than an identical twin of you would be. In fact, less so, what with the age gap. That's not evil at all. So I don't have any problems with cloning, in principle. But I'd have a problem with it if the process involved a high mortality rate for the babies or the clones themselves. It needs to be better understood.