cloning
 

Animal cloning shall always continual the problem is sooner or latter the first Human will be cloned and that will raise many questions. And the big question have we stepped over the mark, once we cross the boundary we have left are self’s open to anything.

YES!

Lets start to Clone! :up:

Yea! Could be fun to see lots of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running around :rotfl: :rotfl:

Markus

I for one am for cloning but ONLY for organ harvesting. This could save countless lives of people who are on waiting lists and it could mean an endless supply of organs (in theory).

I am against human cloning as a mean to copy a whole person. Im not sure yet why im against it since im not very religeous :hmm: Maybe because, through repeaded cloning and genetic engineering it would lead to the perfect human with no defects (personallity and phisically wise), a super-human set apart from the rest which im quite sure will not be accepted. We as humans are set apart by individuallity, each and every one of us is unique and thats the beauty of it.

Since any clone would develop a totally different personality than the original I see no problem.

They might be different in personality but not in their genetic makeup and that's, imo, the big problem.

I don't really see the problem; I think this will eventually be done - that's what all of this seems to be leading up to, anyway.

Well I can always clone myself with the pretext that if a major war starts, I will send him instead of me ;) ... if the clone doesn't end up sending me that is… :nope:

I'm strongly against.

Of course, some development in that way seem promising (spare parts from our body instead of from a poor cadaver, as example), but I am quite sure that, once allowed and possible for excellent reasons, someone will use this tech really badly.

Ugh, this is a real grey area. Cloning, at face value, seems like a great idea, the ideal way of creating the perfect race, no defects and no faults. Body harvesting, making organs to be cut out and put in other people, it's gonna solve a helluva lot of problems.

But when I look above at what I've just written, 'The perfect race' I just have nasty flashbacks to history lessons about other people who've declared themselves on a mission to make the perfect race.
Although I'm in favour of scientific progress, human cloning...doesn't seem such a good idea to me, not until we've done research into the human genome to remove that part of the human species that creates people such as Kurt Blome and Siegfried Ruff.

Indeed it’s a grey area all sort of things come to mind like a super race are we heading towards a (BLADERUNNER) situation, granted yes that was a sci-fi film which super humans were created with out emotions and a four year life span.

We are already tinkering around the edges and when we head strait into the deep end what kind of frame work will be in place, what kind of safeguards as well once we cross that line. We will be in the position to open all kinds of doors and some of them will have nasty things behind them.

If we clone animals, why not humans? After all, we are animals too. :yep:

The problem is that, without some genetic diversity, the first killer bug which comes along would wipe out the entire population.

Take the black plague of Europe for example. If a person inherited a particular gene from one parent they got sick but rarely died. If a person got the gene from both parents they didn't get sick at all. But if, like many in Europe at the time, they didn't get that gene from either parent then they died if were exposed to the disease.

I dont think i could handle another Me :o

Ones enough thanks very much :lol:

reckon that's the start and end of the argument right there---if we create a clone we automatically assume it has less rights than us--where-as the clone may well disagree--as pointed out this creates as many problems as it solves--if indeed it solves any problems at all---if we create clones purely for body parts and remove any intelligence at all then that kinda proves the point--

are we really 100% sure what we really want isn't going to turn out to be a race of slaves ?--it's a bit like IMO the desire to create artificail intelligence--fine as long as it accepts it has no rights what so ever--which isn't very intelligent--same with genetic screening etc---are we 100% sure we know what are good qualitys and what are bad?--great lets make workers who never get fed up of low wages or poor conditions---save our selves a whole lot of bother---unless of course you happen to be one of those workers --but then you won't care--argghhhhh endless
i wouldn't trust the human race to do the right thing with this one in a million years--that's if there even is a right thing which is doubt full