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Author Topic: If we could do Human Cloning, should it be allowed? [Locked]
ryu_masamune
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Registered: 2000-5-18 06:56:19
I wouldn't do it for exactly the reasons you've offered as an example. I suppose many people would want to give in to that temptation, so to speak... and sure, my reptilian brain says "Drew Barrymore cloned wife!!! w00t!"... but creating a race of indentured servants is the final indictment against humanity.

 

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Caoilin  4 stars
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i'm down with human parts cloning. we don't need full humans though. too goddamn many of them on this planet already.

 

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Dark_EternalFF  4 stars
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Not sure what the purpose would be. I guess they'd make good cannon fodder (Warhammer 40k), but people in general are way more ethical than I am, so it'd never work.

I wouldn't clone any dead relatives. No point. If you've ever watched someone die, you know that the body is just a shell, and anything that makes up a 'person', whether something supernatural or not, leaves or dies with them. A clone is a poor substitute - without the exact same experiences and upbringing, they'd never be the same.

 

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ArchrikerHG  2 stars
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Registered: 2004-2-20 14:24:08
other than for body part donations, the only thing I can really see as being acceptable would be for testing on humans...but stuff like that would have to be agreed upon by the clonee and I can't think of a way to make it humane enough for it to be acceptable...

 

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suntzukali2  3 stars
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Varece posted:

No, too many people already. No need to dupe some.

 

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NeoKarnak  2 stars
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Caoilin posted:

i'm down with human parts cloning. we don't need full humans though. too goddamn many of them on this planet already.



I tend to agree with this.


Unless they come up with future tech that plants your memories and consciousness into a cloned body. I would be for that and sign up immediately (getting old is overrated).

 

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Matrix-Monkey
Posts: 25
Registered: 2001-3-2 13:03:15
If?
TickyAtack  4 stars
Posts: 1,303
Registered: 2001-10-23 15:46:32
We allow the stupidest people alive to breed as many times as they want with the fullest of rights.

I don't really see the problem with cloning.

 

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Mangler_SC  4 stars
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Registered: 2003-12-2 08:37:05
-Mithan- posted:

Anebriated posted:

are we talking magic cloning where a grown person appears or the kind grown from an egg?

For the sake of argument, lets say both.

Way to narrow it down...

 

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Aerlinthian  4 stars
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Registered: 2001-5-7 23:53:38
We could make clone armies and sell them.

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