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Re: Cloning
Kantele ( 06/16/2003, 21:18:42 )As much as I am impartial, your ideas seem extreme, and more apply to the term "easier said then done." Even proposing ways of getting clones to the way you want them to, you're missing the fact that you will probably face stiff oposition, especially for those who consider clones, namely, in your example, human clones, human just like you or me. Yes, cloning could potentially save lives, but your argument has a few holes.You seem like a pro-choice person, am I correct? Although you are correct that using embryos could save lives, others don't see it your way. And the robotic heart example but using the word "instead" is like changing the subject completely, like comparing apples and oranges. Going on, how can you just assume that a clone doesn't know what they're doing? If the theories of cloning are correct, a human baby should have all the traits all normal humans should, like independence and such. This statement bothers me the most: "If we continue it we could eventually create a superior race a race with out the burdens of human sikness and human pain with out death and with out loss." You sound like a German who killed millions of people in the 1940's. A superior race? My God, how can anybody even fathom that? Everything feels pain, except for those whom are brainwashed. Is that what you are suggesting? Good luck with the opposition. Without death and without loss is also completely wrong. Everything dies, everything loses something else. You are suggesting that life will not be life anymore. The last time I checked, you could not create immortality, but you could only prolong life.Skipping to the end, "...we will become the true superior race." Well, no we won't. The clones are. Creating a clone does not change our bodies with them. Yes, we could use them to isolate and cure sicknesses, but conciousnous of the human mind cannot be switched, no matter how much you want it to be. Here is another statement that would make some people outcry: "...they could potentially become our labor team, they could be created to not have feeling to be strong and full of wil power." This is like saying communism works in the real world. Although, theoretically, it could work, exveryone knows it as impossible. A labor team would basically make clones slaves, and already, you've lost your funding for that from the moral outcry you would get. Created with no feeling? No emotion? You've watched one too many Universal Soldier movies, I think. The only way to do that, as far as scientists know, would to be cut every nerve ending in the clone's body. Owie. Also, what makes you think the clones would be willing to work, instead of wanting to live normal lives? Brainwashing? Psychotherapy? The point is, your beliefs are fine, but they are not ethical for some people, but moreover, they are nowhere near practical. Remember, YOU will not be the superior race, the clones will be. You cannot be reborn exactly like you are now. You cannot trade conciousness. And just the fact that the clones would be superior to their creators, that could cause problems. Apocalypse, anyone?
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