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Patrick ( 08/11/2003, 07:55:17 )I've just read the last few pages of this forum and i can't believe the ignorance. Understand, by ignorance, i am refering to the literal meaning of the word, not slandering perfect strangers. There are several instances of powerful truths being blatantly overlooked. For example, from a topic having to do with China's alleged cloning research and their competition with the U.S., someone wrote, "I think china has enough people to deal with without more being created through cloning!" Well let's think for a moment about how so many people ended up being born chinese. Does it have to do with god? no. Does it have to do with cloning? no. Does it have to do with the stars or gunpowder or cheap plastic toys? no. So what is it? Well, the easy answer is too much birth, too little death. Long and short. So what lesson can be learned? Well, what is the point behind cloning? What problems stand to be solved? I've heard these two principal arguments: granting the gift of reproduction to the infertile, and extending the lives of the ill and dysfunctional. Hmmm. Does anyone else see a pattern repeating? Longer lives, more of them, producing more of them which in turn last longer. What problem does that solve? The age old question of 'how can we extinguish all life on our pale blue dot in the least amount of time?'? One fundamental problem here is that people, especially in western society, believe human life to be a special and miraculous thing unsurpassed by any other wonder which must be preserved and lengthed at any cost. wrong. Human life is no more important than the pathogens which seek to destroy it. The sooner we all accept that, the better off we will all end up being. I remember another gem that goes something like, "[cloning] will not get out of control any more than any other beneficial technology... because cloning is too costly and lengthy a process." Really? Well i have only twenty five years in this life so far, yet i distinctly remember when it was too costly for the ordinary person to own and use a cellular telephone. I remember when they were called 'car phones', weighed ten pounds and required an antenna be fixed to the roof. The rate of our society's technological progress staggers the imagination. ...and to think the U.S. patent office once closed it's doors in the ninteenth century on the grounds that there was nothing left to invent. The point is, that which is too costly and lengthy now may only take a matter of decades to become as quick and easy as ordering a pizza or making a baby the old fashioned way. Ultimately, this planet is already greatly stressed supporting the life that currently exists. Incidentally, human life on this planet has doubled since the 1960's. How many re-doublings can the Earth stand? Human life is something of which this planet, and humankind for that matter, needs no more. It may take centuries but evetually, with or without cloning, the global ecosystem will collapse if the human population doesn't begin to regulate itself. Western medicine seeks to maintain life regardless of cost, even if the life it's saving wishes not to be saved. Cloning will only make this worse. Of course i don't expect to change anyone's mind and i truly don't care. I'll be long dead before it comes back to haunt humankind and i don't plan to add to the population trouble. I am enlightened. Although, who knows? Maybe another mass extinction is just what this planet needs. Cheers ---- --- -- - -- --- ---- Patrick
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