cloning... bad thing or good?

[cyrusdachickmagnet]

they just cloned a dog and now that i know they could do that theres a chance they could start cloning humans too! so whats your opinion? is it good or bad for us?
me - its a bad thing cause if you clone the wrong person it could reak havoc across the world

[SgtDK]

iirc cloning was banned or something because you have to kill the first clone which is considered inhumane

[putzpie]

Cloning will only copy the persons phenotype. Not their personality. Therefore they could clone you, but that bitch would turn out opposite of you in ways of thinking.

but over population is a bitch, so fuck cloning peoples.

[putzpie]

At 8/6/08 12:24 AM, putzpie wrote: Cloning will only copy the persons phenotype. Not their personality. Therefore they could clone you, but that bitch would turn out opposite of you in ways of thinking.

but over population is a bitch, so fuck cloning peoples.

Normally I don't correct my posts, but I meant to say could, not would >_>. Definately a big difference.

[robattle]

Oh great the world gets taken over by an army of super-human clones.
Stop people this tech is too powerful for us.

[Jackrabbit-slims]

At 8/6/08 12:25 AM, robattle wrote: Stop people this tech is too powerful for us.

yes lets all go back to being shit farmers

im sorry but thats one of the dumbest things i have heard, what happens when a huge meteorite comes to earth and technology is the only thing that can help us?

you get the idea

[putzpie]

At 8/6/08 12:28 AM, Jackrabbit-slims wrote: yes lets all go back to being shit farmers

im sorry but thats one of the dumbest things i have heard, what happens when a huge meteorite comes to earth and technology is the only thing that can help us?

you get the idea

FREE FOOD BITCHES :D

dead cows. EVERYWHERE

[rileyrevenge]

Personally I don't see the reasoning behind why we would want to
I'm not saying science is bad in any way
But I think we need to focus on greater struggles
Such as cures for diseases
Opposed to making duplicates
We already have a crisis where there are too many children who need to be adopted
Why would we create more?
First I think we need to care of greater matters before going on cloning
& other research we don't really have a great use for

[americanidiot2f]

I would support cloning 100%, it would be nice to have replacement organs without trying to find a doner. Of course though, I mean a clone that isn't alive, but has the organs. It's pointless to really have a clone since they won't be the same age as you unless they can clone at an age, but the knowledge they would have to have, it seems unreal.

[robattle]

At 8/6/08 12:28 AM, Jackrabbit-slims wrote:

At 8/6/08 12:25 AM, robattle wrote: Stop people this tech is too powerful for us.

yes lets all go back to being shit farmers

im sorry but thats one of the dumbest things i have heard, what happens when a huge meteorite comes to earth and technology is the only thing that can help us?

you get the idea

Like when we had close calls to the end of the world with the A-bomb. Sure this stuff could be used for good but I think someone will abuse it like we've always had. Oh the point was super-human clones must not take over the world, because that would suck.

[AniMetal]

At 8/6/08 12:41 AM, americanidiot2f wrote:

I agree 100% with the above poster.

Also if we can make live human clones with the same conscious and mind capacity and intelligence as the orignal and normal aging I think I would like to create a clone of my self when i'm around 30 and raise the clone baby till i'm like 50.

That way if I ever die I could, in a sense, live on forever.

[Noodleboy111]

At 8/6/08 12:28 AM, Grubby wrote: It would be cool if they cloned food like beef

I doubt the amount of food made would be more than if you just made them breed normally, especially when it costs thousands right now just to clone something.

I wonder how many people don't have the idea of what kind of cloning we're actually doing

[Physco-Mantits]

In my opinion its not worth it, As we already have enough people in this world and it would cause us to burn through our natural resources faster.

But on the other hand you could use it to create more people that are in politics that could work togethor to think of more effect ways to do things.

[Thewests]

Isn't there already enough people in this world?

[ripoffhitman]

At 8/6/08 12:41 AM, americanidiot2f wrote: I would support cloning 100%, it would be nice to have replacement organs without trying to find a doner.

I forget what movie that was from. Ah it doesn't matter, that movie sucked anyway. The Island, that was it.

Cloning, they probably arn't going to start cloning humans, there wouldn't be much use other than just having more people and more body parts available. People would bitch, and we don't need more people.

[Conker125]

At 8/6/08 12:28 AM, Jackrabbit-slims wrote:

At 8/6/08 12:25 AM, robattle wrote: Stop people this tech is too powerful for us.

im sorry but thats one of the dumbest things i have heard, what happens when a huge meteorite comes to earth and technology is the only thing that can help us?

Bruce Willis would save us, duh

[hothead77]

well we could clone people to build an army but still brings up the problem of feeding and providing stuff for the soilders and like some people brought up there is over population and who knows what kind of mental problems the clones could have from there existence

[acerose]

At 8/6/08 12:46 AM, AniMetal wrote:

At 8/6/08 12:41 AM, americanidiot2f wrote:

I agree 100% with the above poster.

Also if we can make live human clones with the same conscious and mind capacity and intelligence as the orignal and normal aging I think I would like to create a clone of my self when i'm around 30 and raise the clone baby till i'm like 50.

That way if I ever die I could, in a sense, live on forever.

i kind of agree. it would be very interesting to see how yourself (provided the clone came out with EXACTLY the same personality and intelligence and physicall level) could have differed due to your own influence.

i think it would be very fun to have a clone the exact same age as you, not a twin, but a clone who doesnt legally have to go to school, work, ect. then they could stay at home and have fun or do reports or assignments or design things. and you could both go to school every other day. one would have to take intensely good notes for the second to follow.

another interesting thing would be having an exact physicall and mental equall. you could both hone your skills but playing sports, doing body shots, playing chess, checkers, and go, fun debates, video games (i think you get where i am going with this) having yourself as a rival who can actually be interacted with would have no limit to the amout you could acheive.

of course, since you cant clone yourself and get someone your own age, i dont think i would like it that much. as far as spare organs go, take care of yourself, eat right, exersise, dont drink or do drugs, and chances are you wont need a replacement organ. if you do, cross that bridge when you come to it. and dont be a totall prick either, when i die, im going to donate every organ and a sizeable blood transfusion (sucks they cant keep that preserved.). your not going to need it when you die, and someone else might need it to stop themselves from dieing (of course if i developed a terminal illness or got an STD then i would be sad and not give up my organs.). there is millions of other people who share my mindset, so i can only hope that there are enough who share it and my organ and blood type.

realize, that your clone isnt in the generall street term a "Clone". they are more like an identicall twin of a different age. They look the same, and might have dispositions towards athleticism or acne or intelligence, but they wont end up the same as you. Athletes have to train hard to become physically fit, and need good coordination. geniuses have to study to become that way. sociall people are like tha because of their previous exposiures and reactions. an underlying recessive may have mixed oddly in cloning, so it is comepletely possible (although unlikely) to come out with a clone of the opposite sex as you. different levels of testosterone and pheramones and other chemicalls which determine physicall size and strength may have been given off in different levels. also, a clone would almost definitely fall prey to the bane that ruins so many good shows and games and toons. "who am i? why am i here? i shouldnt exist. im not natural." those are the things they would constantly ask and tell themselves.

next problem: overpopulation. the world already has cronic food shortages in regions, the smog given off from cars and other methods of transformation is horribly high already, the oil costs are rising as the supplies fall. why add another mouth to feed, another car on the road, another gas buyer, if your not even going to do it naturally in the way god intended? (braces self for the unfounded atheist to scream "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOD!!!!11oneone and prepares to ignore it)
also, dose cloneing yourself give you pleasure? no, and if it goes wrong there can be problems later on for either you or the clone. why not just go get a wife, and produce a fairly accurate reproduction of yourself, in a way that grants immense pleasure?

also some of the people have mentioned that we should clone foodstock such as cows. it has been proven that clones have a lower immunity to various deises and ailments. i personally dont want my hamburger to have gotten west nile from a mosquito right before it was slaughtered. on the subject of the slaughter, lets take a look at the sluaghter houses shall we? how many of you have droven past a slaughter house and wondered what that disgusting smell was? its the guts of all the cows they have sluaghtered that day. everything they cant grind up, put in a package and sell as fresh meat. the pile gets bigger and bigger untill the end of the day when they can take it to other facilities to dispose of it. next thing, have you ever been to a sluaghter house and seen how they are smashed against each other waiting in line to be killed? desiese in that environment is likely to spread like poking an icecream stick house will nock it down. with clones and their weaker immune sistem, instead of comparing it to an icecream stick house, its more like a house of cards.

so, cloning could have positive effects in the way of spare organs, but since it isnt impossible to obtain donated organs in other ways, and there are any number of negative effects (i probly havent even covered them all), i say, cloning=bad.

[Link24l]

i dont give a damn i meen even if its a human its still gonna think for its self

[Dekuboy]

Eh, cloning fucks with the natural balance. It wasn't meant to be, and shouldn't happen.