Minor Axis
Well-Known Member
What do you guys and gals think about cloning in general? Good, bad, an abomination? It looks like lots of cloned animals are starting to roll off the assembly line.
I really don't have much problem with cloning animals, but I do recognize that if you go overboard with it, that it would not be sustainable, and it would lead to common weaknesses in the clones. Kind of like every farmer using the same variety of seed for planting up his crops. When a blight comes along, all of those fields with the same variation of seed would be susceptible.
What about cloning people? You know it's going to happen and it's a lot more complicated of a moral issue. I do see it happening, but I don't see bunches of people wanting to have exact replicas of themselves running around. But what I do see happening is genetic engineering as a given because it will remove genetic weaknesses to certain illnesses, and give people designer kids to some degree, but I also realize most people will want kids that look related to them, so I see limits there too.
What about the religious implications? A human clone should have just as much of a soul as a real person although it's unprovable. You can argue that all though that person was not created in the "traditional manner", he/she was still created using the same building blocks of life, which could be argued are God's basic building blocks of life, yes?
I really don't have much problem with cloning animals, but I do recognize that if you go overboard with it, that it would not be sustainable, and it would lead to common weaknesses in the clones. Kind of like every farmer using the same variety of seed for planting up his crops. When a blight comes along, all of those fields with the same variation of seed would be susceptible.
What about cloning people? You know it's going to happen and it's a lot more complicated of a moral issue. I do see it happening, but I don't see bunches of people wanting to have exact replicas of themselves running around. But what I do see happening is genetic engineering as a given because it will remove genetic weaknesses to certain illnesses, and give people designer kids to some degree, but I also realize most people will want kids that look related to them, so I see limits there too.
What about the religious implications? A human clone should have just as much of a soul as a real person although it's unprovable. You can argue that all though that person was not created in the "traditional manner", he/she was still created using the same building blocks of life, which could be argued are God's basic building blocks of life, yes?
