Baaaa baaaa, wait, this one's extinct...

[KillerMuffin]

http://www.msnbc.com/news/449316.asp?0nm=T28C

Cloning the extinct Tazmanian Tiger (we know it's not a tiger, shoosh), what do we think? Do we even really care that much?

Personally, I have problems with cloning. Animals are one thing, especially if they can reintroduce extinct animals. People are another thing. How do you explain to a child that he wasn't born like other kids? Does this child have the same rights as every other child? I've read about cloning for much needed donor organs. If you can simply clone the organ, okay, but what if you can't? What if you have to clone the whole person?

I would prefer human cloning not be done, I just don't see a need for it, ever. We can make plenty of new people the old fashioned way, and a lot more fun to boot.

 

[Never]

"How do you explain to a child that he wasn't born like other kids?"
Show him a video of how 'normal' kids come into the world. You know, the one with the close up of a mushed up head bursting through a vagina in a bloody spray.
Then show him how he was born. The kid will love it.

"Does this child have the same rights as every other child?"
Yes.. and no. Humans have already been cloned. One of scientest who cloned the Sheep also did so on himself; he let the sample form for two hours and then dumped it into a vat of liquid nitrogen after he had documented it was possible to successfully clone humans.
Now, according to our constatution, every human being has the same rights. All of the countries that are advanced enough to clone human beings have the law more or less.

No, don't sigh in releaf because there is none in sight. As I said all humans have the same rights. The last I read was that scientest were devoloping human embryos in.. cow eggs. The 'person' that would result would have both cow and human DNA.. I read this two years ago and haven't been able to find one word about it since.


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Say it with me people:
Not to go on all-Fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
Not to suck up Drink; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
Not to eat Flesh nor Fish; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
Not to claw Bark of Trees; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
Not to chase other Men; that is the Law. Are we not Men?

 

[Ezzy]

Say it with me people:
Not to go on all-Fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
Not to suck up Drink; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
Not to eat Flesh nor Fish; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
Not to claw Bark of Trees; that is the Law. Are we not Men?
Not to chase other Men; that is the Law. Are we not Men? [/B]

Damn no sex doggie style.
Damn no oral sex.
Damn no oral sex.
Damn no tree sex.
Thats ok not my scene.

EZ http://smilecwm.tripod.com/cwm2/sleep.gif

 

[Patryn]

This isn't the Island of Dr. Moreau here people.

I have a problem with cloning extinct animals and that problem is they are extinct for a reason. As long as we're quoting movies here, "Life finds a way". While me may not be on the dear Dr.'s island, Jurassic Park might be a possibility. Do we ever learn?

They're cloning pigs for human transplants. I have no problems with that, for two reasons: 1) It benefits man 2) There's plenty of pigs already running around; we're not re-introducing something.

I have always wondered, though...if I were to clone myself, would Mini Me have the same personality? It could either prove or disprove behavioral genetics once and for all.

 

[Wizard]

I have to jump in here .........This may very well apply to me someday.....I belive in it for medical reasons....it is scarey and not far off...many thing are all ready grown.....Some know In my life I have had two kidney transplants and someday I will need another maybe 20 years from now....But if they colon an organ ther are a smaller much smaller chance for recjection....Which is the reason they don't work.........coloning is a fine line.......Are we steping over the line? some say yes and some say no....your call.....I think the day of custom made organs are not far away at all ...........I see Dr's every month and hear about this from the city hospitals that transplant all day long everday ......Just for medical use.........thats all I have to say...thank you....