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Are humans over stepping our boundaries

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Juliet and Romeo
Salute You in Your Grave
Juliet and Romeo
Age: 28
Gender: Female
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February 20th, 2008 at 06:24pm
1)How far is too far?: We've gone too far already. We do alot of things that go completely against nature.

2)I totally resent the concept of resurrection, and think it would be selfish to keep someone past their time. Do you agree?: Definatly. The world is already becoming over populated. We're just helping that happen instead of trying to prevent it.

3)The FDA has approved foods made from cloned animals. Would you eat something if you knew it was cloned?: Uhmm...I'm a vegetarian. So, no. But I actually think it would be better to eat the meat from cloned animals and keep the originals.

4)Do you think it would be safe to clone people?: Well. If it's controlled and doesn't put the original person in danger then I don't see why not.

5)Do you think it is a good Idea to clone people even if it is safe?: No. Like I said before. We need to keep the world from over populating.

6)Do you think a clone would be EXACTLY the same as the original?: If they were then it would go against alot of things people believe in. Everyone is suppose to be different.
7)Do you think people will successfully clone people?: If we keep working towards it we probably will eventually.

9)Will their bodies look like they did when they died, or will they be decayed?: I'm not really sure.
Littlemisschem
Fabulous Killjoy
Littlemisschem
Age: 31
Gender: Female
Posts: 129
March 24th, 2008 at 08:55pm
Cloning is about as far as we've gone I think, and that's where we should stop. I don't like the resurrection thing either, it's just wrong. You can't reverse time, and what it took with it. To bring someone back, in some aspects would be great. You'd get to be with your loved one again, like in that movie Artificial Intelligence. But then, they wouldn't want that. It is selfish in some ways. I would never drink cloned milk, that's gross for some reason, and weird. It wouldn't be safe to clone people because it's like going down all the way to your DNA, and to replicate that is impossible. And so to get something like it, they'd probably use some kind of scanner machine, it'd rip away something from you, wouldn't it? It would be cool to have a clone, because then they can do all the things you don't wanna do. But then it'd be weird, and creepy. Nothing can ever be exactly the same if you're recreating it. It could just be one little gene that's different, or they might have different colored eyes, but they'll never be the same. I think successful cloning is possible.... as for ressurecting people, I don't know. I think just to annoy the scientist, their body should come out decayed. Leave the dead alone.
miss mcr
Jazz Hands
miss mcr
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March 25th, 2008 at 10:42pm
Littlemisschem:
Cloning is about as far as we've gone I think, and that's where we should stop. I don't like the resurrection thing either, it's just wrong. You can't reverse time, and what it took with it. To bring someone back, in some aspects would be great. You'd get to be with your loved one again, like in that movie Artificial Intelligence. But then, they wouldn't want that. It is selfish in some ways. I would never drink cloned milk, that's gross for some reason, and weird. It wouldn't be safe to clone people because it's like going down all the way to your DNA, and to replicate that is impossible. And so to get something like it, they'd probably use some kind of scanner machine, it'd rip away something from you, wouldn't it? It would be cool to have a clone, because then they can do all the things you don't wanna do. But then it'd be weird, and creepy. Nothing can ever be exactly the same if you're recreating it. It could just be one little gene that's different, or they might have different colored eyes, but they'll never be the same. I think successful cloning is possible.... as for ressurecting people, I don't know. I think just to annoy the scientist, their body should come out decayed. Leave the dead alone.


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sir_pleb
Jazz Hands
sir_pleb
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Posts: 303
March 26th, 2008 at 07:58pm
Littlemisschem:
Cloning is about as far as we've gone I think, and that's where we should stop. I don't like the resurrection thing either, it's just wrong. You can't reverse time, and what it took with it. To bring someone back, in some aspects would be great. You'd get to be with your loved one again, like in that movie Artificial Intelligence. But then, they wouldn't want that. It is selfish in some ways. I would never drink cloned milk, that's gross for some reason, and weird. It wouldn't be safe to clone people because it's like going down all the way to your DNA, and to replicate that is impossible. And so to get something like it, they'd probably use some kind of scanner machine, it'd rip away something from you, wouldn't it? It would be cool to have a clone, because then they can do all the things you don't wanna do. But then it'd be weird, and creepy. Nothing can ever be exactly the same if you're recreating it. It could just be one little gene that's different, or they might have different colored eyes, but they'll never be the same. I think successful cloning is possible.... as for ressurecting people, I don't know. I think just to annoy the scientist, their body should come out decayed. Leave the dead alone.


Your science is bit off, I'm afraid. It's perfectly possible to replicate DNA. It does it naturally itself. In fact, in wouldn't even be necessary to do more than take a sample from any one of your billions of cells. DNA can really only do one thing, and that is reproduce itself over and over again.

DNA is made up of four bases cytosine, guanine, adenine and thymine. These only have one option as to how to pair up, cytosine to guanine and adenine to thymine. These pair up on either side of the classic double-helix that I'm sure you know. To replicate itself, the double helix splits, each strand seperates, and then each base joins up with it's only possible partner, producing the same double-helix twice.

Your genes are based on the ordering of base-pairs over massive lengths of DNA. All the stuff about designer babies and whatnot, will be theoretically possible once enough of the human genome is mapped, and scientists can tell what order does what.

The problem isn't in the very small bits of human biology, but getting them to fit together into something (or is someone more apt?) that works.
Glitterlust
Salute You in Your Grave
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Age: 32
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March 27th, 2008 at 07:18pm
1)How far is too far? i think it depends on the situation, you never know how far people will go. especially nowadays.

2)I totally resent the concept of resurrection, and think it would be selfish to keep someone past their time. Do you agree? I have to agree with you, i think it's completely unnatural and it's messing with nature. i'm not sure if it's selfish but to me, once you're dead, then you're dead. You should never be brought back, no matter what circumstances you died under.

3)The FDA has approved foods made from cloned animals. Would you eat something if you knew it was cloned? I personally would avoid it like the plague x]

4)Do you think it would be safe to clone people? I'm not sure, i think it'd be strange, it depends how safe they make it i suppose.

5)Do you think it is a good Idea to clone people even if it is safe? No, to me that is also completely unnatural and really odd.

6)Do you think a clone would be EXACTLY the same as the original? Yep, thats what a clone is, they're exactly the same. like a carbon copy.

7)Do you think people will successfully clone people? I think eventually they will, i dunno how long it'll be till they can but they've already cloned a sheep, how long till they clone people?

8 ) Do you think we will successfully resurrect people? I don't know, i think it's physically impossible but I don't know how far humans would go.

9)Will their bodies look like they did when they died, or will they be decayed? I suppose it depends on the state they were in when they were either dug up or taken from the mortuary to be ressurected. I'm assuming they wouldn't try to bring back someone who was decayed, it'd be like a zombie film x]
Girl Anachronism
Thinking Happy Thoughts
Girl Anachronism
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March 27th, 2008 at 10:36pm
The idea of cloning is just to close to Hitler for me, in a way. With his whole blond hair and blue eye thing..... I mean, if we clone someone, whats next? Changing someones hair color, eye color, changing everything about them and controlling and shaping their life into what YOU want it to be. I'm not sure, but all the things that we could do with it. And I know the whole thing of 'giving someone who is on a kidney transplant list a kidney' seems good, but, not at the risk of what cloning could bring about and do. It makes me uneasy just thinking about it.