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Originally Posted by sammiz  Please know that to me, this is a 'debate' and none of my statements are meant to be untoward. In other words....nothing personal. Just a sharing of opposing views. I subscribe to the following:
The quality and depth of a debate improves knowledge of its participants.
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I think the question is "progress to where?" I can see a myriad of issues involving this. Sometimes, seeing the 'whole' picture brings one into areas that are needful of consideration. It is not merely 'making prgress' but involves many ethical dilemmas. For one, involving your statement...who do you think would care if your DNA was patented or not? Just the good guys, maybe? What about the 'other' ones?
There are so many evil men (and women) in the world. Just look at how we've progressed with nuclear knowledge. Mankind has no knowledge of how to control it once it begins reaction....it is unstoppable. This knowledge in the hands of someone that has no conscience or consideration for the welfare of other humans is a nightmare waiting to happen. Many fof us fear this very thing today because it is a very real possibility.
It would be nothing like having a twin. Twins are born at the same time and are the same age. If you are, say...twenty years old now and were cloned, your 'twin' would be twenty when you are forty.
Creation of human clones would enable evil ones to create their own armies of clones. Unthinkable? How about cloning people for the human trafficing? That would be beyond horrible wouldn't it? But the potential is there. Someone that is of the mind to do such evil would only have to wait fifteen years or so. Not even that long, really.
I will continue to pray that their efforts are thwarted. I fervently hope that cloning is not a successful venture for mankind. |
i think you raise some good points here. but i feel the issue you are raising is not necessarily problems with cloning, but problems with.. hum how would i word this... the aftermath?/with what bad people will be doing with cloning? in my mind it can be done in a pure and non evil way, same as giving birth to a baby. I dont think that cloned beings should have lesser rights than anyone else also... and isnt someone going to have to carry these embryos to term anyway? its not like they are being born in some machine. I dont think cloning will be happening on any kind of massive scale any time soon (for trafficing or wars or whatever) unless people gather armies of women ready to carry babies and giv ethem up for some greater purpose (i doubt they will find a lot of these kinds of women). as far as the dna patenting, i guess I thought it out alot further than i stated. I am assuming there will be some kind of database that doctors or cloners can refer to when they are looking into cloning certain dna, to see if that dna is AVAILBLE or not for cloning-kind of like a police/medical database. I dont really foresee any evil doers stealing hair from someone like angelina jolie and making some blackmarket clone of her without the help of established doctors and this yet unnamed database... its funny becaus this sounds like this could make a good movie.. LOL I just got the thought: what if someone DID make some blackmarket clone baby... what kind of legal reprocussions would there be?? it is a person afterall.. you cant say.. you are not allowed to be alive!! haha one can only imagine