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Why are people against cloning?

Originally posted by: preslove
You ever watch episode II: attack of the clones? DUH.
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yeah....the human race simply can't take another Lucas film....it will scatter and die a slow and painful death
 
I think it has to do with the fact that there are legal issues concerning the clones rights? is it going to be like in those sci fi movies where the clones will just be used as spare body parts, sex slaves, carriers for peoples children, etc......... ?

 
There are complex legal and ethical issues involved. For one example, say someone wanted a superstar basketball player for a child, so they clone MJ. Turns out the child likes art instead. Is it fair for the father to push the child into basketball? The father and society will have developed certain expectations of the child even before he is born. The father's love for the child may vary depending on how well the child meets his expectations (since his expectations are why he chose to clone MJ in the first place). Whether it is fair to the child for this to happen is debatable. There are other issues as well, but it would make this a huge post, so I'll just leave you with that for now.
 
Well, I am for the pure idea of cloning, such as growing new body part for people, such as heart, limbs, misc organs transplants. I do not particulary care for the current idea of cloning such as child rearing, or copying. The main reason I see it would be seen in plants when farmers would take bit of a tree or bush to grow a "clone" of the origional, instead of the pollination route.

The example I give is in Riverside, Citrus was huge. Everyone was growing oranges and had thousands of trees all grown from the 1 origional. Then a nasty botanical disease came in. It just happened to be the origional was particularly weak to that disease and subsequently, all of it's "clones" were wiped out, devastating the orachards.

So if this lesson were to be brought in to a human population, the same idea would still be something to be feared. If this particular person be cloned instead of the normal mixing of genes, then evolution stops, sensitivities to misc diseases stops, and eventually can be a larger problem then whatever we were trying to solve with cloning.

I won't feel safe about cloning actual people until we can say we have stopped all disease, small and large, which I doubt will ever happen, in my lifetime or even my great-great grand children.

On top of this "science" problem with full cloning, then add in the religious and concepts of a "soul" and it is just too sensitive of a topic for us to handle in our current society.
 
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