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Should cloning be legalized?

try and make your reasons rational if at all possible...

Should cloning be legalized?

try and make your reasons rational if at all possible...

I think cloning should be legal, it's completely harmless

*Real Kulikovo is locked in trunk of car*

me 2...
i think the good it can do vastly outweighs the bad

Should cloning be legalized?

Cloning for which purpose ? Procreation ? Organ harvesting ? Creating an army of imperial soldiers ? Adding more pressure to the overpopulated world ?

Cloning for which purpose ? Procreation ? Organ harvesting ? Creating an army of imperial soldiers ? Adding more pressure to the overpopulated world ?
...because it would be cool. :rolleyes:

not procreation cuz that's fun. organ transplants n helping 2 cure terminal diseases that sorta stuff. but the army idea sounds good 2...

Cloning should certainly be legalized. With enough research and investment, we could eliminate the organ shortage. I am not convinced that the cloning of full human beings could ever be profitable so I doubt it would ever be done on any large scale. The notion some sort of clone army would be created is ludicrous. Not only would it be prohibitively expensive, but there is no shortage of poor people willing to throw their lives away.

Biological engineering and medical science are some of the few sciences that the US can be definitively considered to be more advanced in than other first world nations. The fact that forces within the US are opposed to advances in these fields is one of the most ridiculous and self-defeating things I’ve ever heard of.

As if there wasn't too much ppl around already.. :mad:
Please! Leave some room for nature!

I'm against cloning people completey because I do believe it could be abused (genetic altering, super soldiers, etc.). Plus it will more likely than not cause issues with the "rights of clones" etc. (because face it whenever someone is different, they are discriminated against regardless).

I am however, for the cloning of tissues and organs as long as it is done in a safe and monitered way that doesn't get out of hand. Capitalizing a legal organ market could help to drive prices down for transplants (yeah really idealistic I know, but it's better than the government monopolizing the whole situation).

i see nothing wrong with cloning and the most common arguement is either based off of books and movies or crazy fundamentalists.

books and movies that people look at for the arguement of cloning are usually complete fiction and hold little to no truth about clonning in them at all. if we listened to what fictional pieces of work said to us then we shouldnt build computers and robots anymore because those robots will just take over and kill all humans.

as for the people that use the bible(i know many of you claim this is nothing but a work of fiction)/religion they really dont have much of an arguement besides "its playing god". i dont see how this is playing god. while you are cloning human life you are creating a universe. I am also not very fluent of the bible scriptures but im pretty sure the bible doesnt say much about copying someones DNA.

As long as you can ensure that no suffering on the part of the clone takes place I'm fine with it. Shorter life, odds of horrible mutations, no parents. Yupp that's one heathy kid.

I really do think that as long as humans fill the earth with unnatural stuff, let the plaques roam the lands and rip the flesh from the bones!! No need for any kind of medical research, if it's not found in the nature, you really can't help yourself with it. No matter what the marketing ppl sucking Satan's cock say.

i say no to everything! outlaw everything, including resportation!

As long as you can ensure that no suffering on the part of the clone takes place I'm fine with it. Shorter life, odds of horrible mutations, no parents. Yupp that's one heathy kid.

im sayin clonin like organs n shit.
not sentient life

I think cloning and genetic engineering can be used well in a number of ways. I for one have no problems with genetically altered foods, and indeed, cloning might aid us well in combatting global hunger, especially as the human population inevitably rises.

Organ and tissue transplants, skin grafts for burns, new limbs for amputees...the possibilities are simply amazing.

Of course, there are real risks...real ethical and social issues associated with such use of genetic technology. The list of these issues is as long as the list of ways cloning can aid us.

While I support learning all we can, I also support keeping such technology tightly controlled, and limited in application, until we can be sure that we as a species are ready to use such power responsibly.

...might take a while. :(

I think cloning and genetic engineering can be used well in a number of ways. I for one have no problems with genetically altered foods, and indeed, cloning might aid us well in combatting global hunger, especially as the human population inevitably rises.

Now THAT'S sick! :mad:
Are you sure you are willing to corrupt all the nature with GMO? One GMO plant is already too far!! It claims the space from it's natural "kin" and soon the natural one has become EXTINCT as the GMO spreads diseases all over! And the risks the GMO does for yourself? There's NO guarantee your body would accept a GMO. So go on, have your lab-experimented mad cow, but at least go into some kind of bomb-shell or locked and unvented missile silo to rot, so you won't destroy ALL the world!