I'm usually left winged but I stand on the opposing side of this barge. Cloning may be good, it may be bad. But history shows once something good is invented it only a matter of time before someone comes and tries to put their greedy palms and use it for bad. Who would want to clone a murder? a Murderer would and also his accomplice all of this is probable. Technology is growing faster than the common man's maturity and ability to use no tech with common sense if someone doesn't watch out cloning could seriously mess up the world. What happens to the unsuccessfully cloned? Are they destroyed? that's technically murder. Society isn't ready for it yet.

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I agree with Spathi. i think that if we cloned certain animals, we would be able to feed many more people. also, by cloning a certain animal that you know is healthy, you dont have to worry as much about some sort of disease that some cows might be born with or contract because of some kind of medical reasons.



hehe. sounds like Jurassic Park.

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I'm in favour of cloning because it's a step towards the ultimate goal: a near unlimited lifespan for human beings.

Your body is basically a biological machine. There's a couple of destructive mechanisms at work that will make you grow old, some are coded into DNA, others are chemical in nature and others are the result of entropy.

Cloning is a step towards creating stemcells that are necessary to regenerate other cells. It will also create the necessary knowledge toward repairing DNA on a massive scale in a living human body.

The ultimate goal is a near unlimited lifespan. When this has been achieved, we will finally be able to think in a broader perspective, you don't have to rush anymore, it's important to take care of the environment, and a 300 year trip to another world doesn't seem so long anymore.

Just my $0.02.

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cloning humans....
what would it be like will it have the same mental capacity? think like me act like me? but cloning im all for unless it costs more to actually clone than it ll save

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Cloning animals. . . . yes. . it could be extremely useful to the human race.
Cloning humans. . . . no. . . mainly because of the huge ethical thing of people clonging humans and harvestign them for organs and other horrible things liek that. Although if humans were cloned i dont see it as being problem, would be no difference than having identical twins i guess. . . .
But the whole designer baby thing could be a problem.
Its a;; a very touchy subject i guess. . . .

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I've done a speech on cloning before (it was in french). Cloning is pretty useful for some things, but it is still risky. Some scientists believe that cloning is not good, because the cloned animals won't have "souls". Even though this is more like religion, "souls" may still be real, as scientists say. Cloning is also a lot of work, in money and person. It takes millions of dollars to clone.

And eventually, in the future, if people cloned their children as a "backup", the world will be in apartheid. It will be separated between poor, and rich (who can afford cloning). So does that mean if you are cloned, you're rich?

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Cloning rules

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I think that cloning is not a bad thing, as I see it, if there's a way to make some people walk or see (to say a few examples) it's no t bad at all. If people can get past the moral problem the cloning research could benefit a lot to mankind

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This reminds me of a Sci-Fi series called "Space: Above and Beyond" that had so-called "Tanks", people that were grown in tanks instead of being born. They were believed to have no souls.

What is a soul? How does it get into a fetus and at what time? Does a soul fit into a single cell (fertilized egg), or does it need a number of cells to "fit"? And if the DNA is replaced (i.e. cloned) inside this fertilized egg, does that have any effect on souls?

What is the relevance of souls if all you're interested in is cloning stemcells, needed to repair damaged body parts?

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All I have to say about cloning is this:

When someone donates an organ or sperm or an egg do they eventually care about the moralities of who it gets donated to? Not really. Same here. Who should care if the "clone" would have feelings or not? It won't matter because the being won't even live that long. Plus cloning is getting so that we don't even have to clone an entire being any more. We now are able to clone just parts and organs. That is what is so great about this cloning business. We can actually do some good before the person dies.

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