Cloning
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| bloodredruby69 Banned  Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 8293 | Scientists have been able to successfully clone animals, notably, sheep, and are putting lots of work and money into research pertaining to cloning and the ways it can be used. Human cloning has been, so far, banned. ----------------------- Is cloning ethical? Moral? Why or why not? Is "humans should not play God" a valid argument on cloning? What are some of the advantages of animal cloning? What are some of the disadvantages of animal cloning? What are some of the advantages of human cloning? What are some of the disadvantages of human cloning? Human cloning is illegal. Is this justified? Why or why not? |
| death by plane; Killjoy  Age: 30 Gender: Female Posts: 36 | I don't think cloning is necessary, at all. We already have enough humans and other animals. An exceed of cloning of any type of animal can cause overpopulation of a certain species, which may cause other species to become endangered or extinct. |
| bloodredruby69 Banned Age: 35 Gender: Female Posts: 8293 | ^That is true. Overpopulation is a big issue, especially since our world doesn't grow with us. But what about cloning animals for the slaughter? To make more food for the ever rising number of humans? |
| Innamorata Awake and Unafraid  Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 11838 | I disagree with the whole ' Humans should not play God'. If the majority are stating this, then what should also should be discussion of God giving humans free will. |
| Thursday's Child Bleeding on the Floor  Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 1324 | I'm on the fence about cloning. I mean, I disagree with people who want to clone their dead cat or dog after it dies so they can have the animal for another 15 years. I mean seriously, there are enough stray animals in the world. do us all a favor and go to your local humane society... and it's not like the animal will have the same persona as the animal you had before. It'll have the same physical traits...does that really seem worth it when there are thousands of animals dying without homes? cloning animals for slaughter, I'm sort of for...I've heard of absolutely horrible ways that animals are impregnanted so they can reproduce more animals to be killed. I can't say I'm an expert on cloning, but I think it's better than destroying an animals mental state by making them go through those kind of conditions... Finally, human cloning. I think, if it's used to provide treatment of diseases, I'm completely for it. Sure it may be "killing a life" but really, it could saves thousands more. "humans should not play god" is a completely invalid arguement because a.) not all people believe in god b.) this is science. not religion. leave your bibles at the door and think logically here, not spiritually. I know it's a hard task, but to get anything accomplished in the world today, we need to put those things behind us for the moment and look at it on a common playing field. |
| xXDr. KrazyXx Fabulous Killjoy Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 120 | I think that i t makes sense to not allow cloning period. It's sort of frightening, if you ask me. Although, cloning animals enables us to have more livestock to use to our benefit. Human cloning shoud never become legal, ever. We have enough humans, and we can make more the easy way. Why clone humans? Is there any benefit in that? I don't think so. Also, how do we know how a human clone's mind will form and develope? I think that's a question we do not need to know the answer to. I'm okay with not knowing. |
| morbid_dream Jazz Hands Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 385 | Im not really for or against cloning, i think it's unnecissary to clone with overpopulation happening but then again i think it could be useful in certain ways it all just depends on how you look at it |
| Jeffree Star Motor Baby  Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 950 | I think cloning is playing God right there. I'm not trying to be religous ,but it should be natural birth, I don't want my baby born in a test tube. |
| All we are is here Joining The Black Parade Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 221 | i think cloning is not right for people. Maybe we can clone sheeps or other animals. But that don't mean we are ready to clone human 'cause our thinking style is so different than animals. People are animals too, but we are too difficult. |
| through the mire Salute You in Your Grave Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 3499 | i agree with cloning. We could clone organs for organ transplants and save many lives, or clone meat so vegeterians could eat meat without harming animals. |
| Slacker Killjoy Age: 32 Gender: Male Posts: 43 | I think it could lead to some seriously important scientific discoveries such as making duplicate organs. Also, i think we humans should be allowed "To play God", we must decide our own future.... |
| Jeffree Star Motor Baby Age: - Gender: Female Posts: 950 | Slacker: You have a point about the medical reasons. But just duplicating the humans is not okay for me. |
| Ignore Alien Orders Salute You in Your Grave  Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 2026 | duplicating organs? great. duplicating entire organisms? not so much. the repercussions of this, i just think it's not worth the risk. not to go all star wars, but it just seems so horrible. the things that could happen--there is something different about a creature that's grown in a test tube. what if they screw up in the laboratory, just a tiny bit--one tiny bit of dna placed improperly. we've seen genetic disorders involving dna "glitches"--they all involve a child just slowly, horribly dying. they lose control as their body deteriorates. isn't that a huge possibility when the dna is from a laboratory, made by humans? once that cloned creature is alive, there's no going back--unless you murder it. nature creates some mistakes, humans create infinitely more than that. i just don't think it's right because of that. |
| Slacker Killjoy Age: 32 Gender: Male Posts: 43 | I agree with both of you, complete human cloneing is kinda freaky... However, i've seen some radical ideas about each of us having a seperate body. So when we die, all our brains contents can be transfered to that body and we can live another life. That seems really cool to me, but it probably won't happen for hundreds of years, if it even happens. |
| Adora Angel In The Murder Scene  Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 21594 | MyOwnImmortality: I agree with Breanna. |
| Me-ninja Joining The Black Parade Age: 32 Gender: Male Posts: 199 | i dunno who to agree with ??? i never knew you could clone stuff if i had a cloning machine id clone my money id be rich |
| blackroses92 Killjoy Age: 31 Gender: Female Posts: 62 | i don't agree with any sort of cloning of any complete being overpopulation is a problem in our society already and i don't think animals should have to go through lab testing for things like that... cloning organs though is a good way to save the lives of those in need |
| through the mire Salute You in Your Grave Age: 32 Gender: Female Posts: 3499 | i think cloning a whole organism is kind of werid...so is transplanting your brain to a younger you. and i agree with the overpopulation -- i never even thought of that |
| cutupangel Killjoy Age: 34 Gender: Female Posts: 54 | I think that cloning is morally wrong and you shouldnt play around with it because so many bad things can be created from it. when they actually do clone humans,or animals or whatever,what do they do with the "bad" clones?what if the cloning works but it turns out totally different than what you expected?i just think we should leave things the way they are and shouldnt clone. also i dont think cloning should be okay even if it means to replace animals that are soon to be extinct. if they become extinct then the world will work to find a way to adapt to it. |
| Fezzik Salute You in Your Grave  Age: 33 Gender: Female Posts: 2748 | I'm very wary of cloning. It seems like we're getting ahead of ourselves with it. There's so much we don't know about DNA; I think messing with it too much is probably a bad idea. I don't think human cloning should ever be legalized. It could just be abused so easily. If we could clone indivdual organs, however, that would be brilliant. I don't really know enough about the purposes of cloning to have a really great opinion on it. What purpose would there be to cloning animals? Natural reproduction is much easier and less expensive than cloning, so I don't really see why cloning would be used for livestock purposes. Anyone care to explain? |
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