|
Personally I wouldn't want another one of me running around. Think of all the problems that it would cause same dna same fingerprints..I wouldn't feel like myself I'd feel violated. What do you think?
In order to clone a person, which in no way shape or form is possible yet (despite the cloning of germ cells in Mass) the cloned person must be outside the womb. Then DNA would be extracted and messed with to make an embryo. The embryo would then be placed in a surrogate mother. That means any clone would have to be at least 9 months younger than its DNA donor, so many physical characteristics would be different, especially in the early years.
Contrary to popular myth, clones would not have the same fingerprints as their donors. Also, since the two people would be raised as different people, they would have different personalities Plus to the extent that genes determine personalities has not yet been determined.
I don't think that cloning is necassary. To bring back a dead loved one is foolish (how would you feel always living up to a person you never knew?) and would cause severe mental problems for all who are involved, especially the cloned person.
Cloning for the sake of progress doesn't make any sense either. If it doesn't help people, why waste the time and money to do it? Wouldn't a better progress be to help the growing numbers of homeless people? I think so. This is especially true considering all of the concerns and dangers that arise from cloning. I think if people want to clone themselves and the technology is there and it is done with tight restraints, why not? I just don't understand the want, but that doesn't make it wrong.
As for cloning organs to help relieve the stress on the organ care system, I think there are better ways to go about it. If humans eliminate certain enviromental factors, such as smoking and obeisty (which needs to be taken care of anyway for other obvious reasons), the # of people needing transplants would decrease rapidly, and the strain on the organ donation system would thus be decreased. We wouldn't need to clone human organs if we took better care of ourselves.
Scrooge is about to die and he feels that there's no one better to take care of his money than, obviously, himself. So he figures if he gets himself cloned, he'll 'have' a whole new lifetime to watch over his fortune. Little does he know is that his clone will only live for about as much time as he has left; so if he dies in a year or so, his clone most likely wouldn't make it to his fifth birthday.
As cowabunga said, what would be the point of clonning? What are we proving in the fact that we can create life in a bottle? What is this burning desire in Man to play the role of God? 'We must clone Man in order to further medicine and technology' my ass. Clonning is just a waste of time and a waste of money. Why don't we save billions of dollars in research in this field and maybe utilize that money towards, let's say, rebuilding our nation's economy and paying cities who have experienced tragedies (just off the top of my head, NYC for example) to literally rebuild efficiently and productively and maybe even use some of that money to pay-off some of the national debt (which by the way I feel is very weird, national debt, because most of the money we owe ourselves...)
Sometimes I just wish I had a clone but then I think about it. There is no person just like me and if there was we probably wouldn't get along. You don't hang out with people just like you.
I saw something like that on a soap opera once where a woman had a clone. The clone was growing up faster than normal people. That's one reason why I wouldn't want a clone. You get attached to them and they die on you.
Another reason I wouldn't want a clone would be because your clone could be framing you, and you wouldn't have any proof and no one would believe you.
I'm signing off talk to you guys later
|
