ofcource I'm with cloning since it's the only good way get things out

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my opinion is that cloning people is a good idea because if you clone someone you can use their organs to save the original and they wouldn't have to die.

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i really dont appreciate the fact that cloning has arrived.. its good as long as it is for medical purposes... and i think thats where it should stop.. as long as it is being used for good purposes.. no issues..
just imagine if HITLER had the privellege of getting cloned.. the whole idea is so scary...

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I'm totally for cloning. Cloning is the furture and is and will be a massive step for medical research. Cloning will basically cure nearly every disease known to man.

If you've lost a limb, they can grow you a perfect match and you have that new limb whatever that could be. If you have a heart disease and need a transplant, who is a better donator then yourself? They can grow you a new heart.

So in cases of cancer where they remove the parts of your body which contain cancer, they can replace them with your clone of that body part.

For those who think cloning is wrong, infact their wrong. Cloning is natural, and many animals can actually clone themselfs. I don't know any personally, but alot of plants defiently can.

Cloning is going to happen in the furture, too many advantages and very little disadvantages.

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I... actually don't know. I'd say yes, because I think cloning is cool. I'd love to have a duplicate of me. The only bad side is that my duplicate would want rights and stuff, and then soon they'll be clone voting and all of us would surely die. No one would reproduce. Or that could happen, but I don't know. I guess I wouldn't really want cloning, other than for a temporary time because clones would ruin all our lives forever. Like, my clone would have my brain or something, so it'd like... log on to here and spam. I wouldn't know, though.

Clones could trick us, unless we like, patched or did something to them to know that they're clones, but again they'll get angry and revolt and stuff.



Good point, but they wouldn't be willing to just be used as test subjects. Plus, since clones technically are people, some other people will protest and junk. Just like animals.


Hmm, would you like the fact that your only existance is to be a transplant for your original? I don't think clones would like that (if they had a brain or a conscience or a mind).



I like cloning, personally. Cloning may be natural in plants and animals, but not for people. That'd be unnatural.



I agree, cloning will happen soon. Sometime, maybe in a few years or even 20, we'll all be living among clones and robots.

Oh, and Forbez, don't hate me just for quoting you. I just take the last post, I don't dig into each and every post. Don't take this offensively.

 

 

 

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I'd have to say I'm for it, but only in medical purposes... As mostly everyone agrees... But, I wouldn't go all the way to cloning a human being entirely... Why clone an entire human being, if you only need a heart, or a kidney? No, instead, you clone, and grow only that "part" that you need... It's much more efficient, and, well, let's face it, much cheaper, then growing a whole human being... And sadly, people first look to see the cost of something...

for whether it's natural or not... I don't know... It's a philosophical debate, and no matter how much I like to debate, I'll leave this one to the philosophers... No one actualy knows how far exactly have they gone with cloning, but it's far away from being perfect, and being fully usable for humans... Or animals for that matter... I'm not closely following that cloning subject, so I don't know of any breakthroughs...

But, it would be nice if I could get a new set of healthy lungs, instead of these asthma ones mayne new set of eyes, so I don't need to wear glasses (even though they make me look cool )

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I agree to it, but only if it isn't used in circumstances similar to 'The Island'. Cloning could easily go awry, just like splitting the atom did.

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I vote for cloning, but humanity has got to be careful with it, because with great power comes even greater responsibility. There are a lot of good things that we can only imagine at the moment that can be done with cloning, but there are also a lot of bad and evil things that can be done with it. Overall cloning is great scientific progress which can only be good if handled the right way. I really liked how this subject was introduced in this thread, the nuclear technology was a great example.

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I'm for Cloning for the sake of research only. I'm against entire cloning of humans. I'm firm on my stand because then it would be a facility available only to the super rich!!

During my schooldays, I had a poem in my textbook titled 'Death the leveler'. It said that whovever you may be, however rich you may be, death treats everyone equally. Both the king and the pauper have to embrace death sometime or the other.

But I'm for cloning of particular organs. If a baby has some congenital disorder say a punctured heart since birth, we should be able to replace it with a heart made in the labs and give the kid a new life.

But if we could clone humans with ease, it could create great havoc. Imagine a much wanted terrorist is finally caught and is being executed for his crimes and the bad guys already have his replica ready to create more havoc!!! If two countries together could not catch one terrorist, he could duplicate himself and create havoc all over the world!!! And we all know all these terrorist organisations have steasy sources of income and have huge funds dedicated towards voilance!!!

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Yikes. Touchy subject.

Cloning would be a great thing if you are referring to creating organs (such as a compatible liver, heart, skin, etc.) for transplants that can save lives. It's really not a person... just a part of a person that you would be creating. Sure, Nature never intended for us to create people, much less parts of people, but then again, Nature never intended for us to do a lot of things.

Cloning actual PEOPLE, on the other hand, might make for a sticky issue. It would be interesting to bring back people from the dead, so to speak, by replicating cells from, let's say, a deceased family member and in essence giving "that" person a second chance at life. (Think of how the parents of Gage in Pet Semetary may have considered this option.) It would also be rather be strange to have multiple "selves" of someone... although there really wouldn't be much difference in the larger picture of things (each clone would be his/her own person outside of genetic identity, not a complete physical AND psychological copy), I would think that it could cause complications on a personal level to know that there are multiples of "you." Not to mention that our population as a species would climb with more mouths to feed, heads to shelter, etc.

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