Poll: cloning of people

[Cmwissy]

people are asshole enough as it is, why make MORE of the people we already have?

The way I see it - find the nice gut in the million - clone him a million times - kill the rest.

Works

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

It doesn't really seem necessary.

 

[manbearpig91]

we have more than enough people. the only things that should be cloned is stem cells, endangerd species and plants

 

[Satin6T]

No sex is soooo much fun

 

[AdmiralMemo]

It really depends on what the purpose of creating the clones is, in my book. Cloning kids to raise? Sure. Cloning people to kill them and harvest their organs if yours fail? Not cool.

 

[mykalwane]

Clones only can work if you can transfer information from one head to another. Otherwise I would have to go back to the problem why make more of something that is already disliked.

 

[Crystal Cuckoo]

I don't think so.
For one, it'd raise crime rates, because you'd never really know who committed the crime if there are multiple identical suspects.
Furthermore, breeding clones to harvest them (while being scientifically viable and worthwhile) is unethical- why raise a human just so that his/her organs can be harvested for the original? This notion is brought up in texts like My Sister's Keeper and The House of the Scorpion.

 

[silicon avatar]

If we clone whole people think about the possible social problems that would result from that. who would own the clone? the company that made it? the persons cells being used? the governments? we would have yet another minority group demanding equal protection and rights.
but as far as cloning just the parts an amputee or someone with organ failure would need, I am all for it. people shouldn't have to suffer or die when we can treat them.

 

[vacuumbrand]

Cloning whole people is a bad idea, not the actual process and end result, but the way society would react to such a feat would be messy. We already have enough social issues in the world right now and don't need another one. I do think cloning organs or body part is a good idea though, it would save alot of lives and cut down on the donor-recipient list.

This.

 

[TotallyFake]

If we clone whole people think about the possible social problems that would result from that. who would own the clone? the company that made it? the persons cells being used? the governments? we would have yet another minority group demanding equal protection and rights.
but as far as cloning just the parts an amputee or someone with organ failure would need, I am all for it. people shouldn't have to suffer or die when we can treat them.

Sweet christ YOU CANT OWN A PERSON. If you squeeze a baby out normally the doctor doesn't own it. If you have IVF the lab technition doesn't own it.

Everyone hears cloning and just goes mad. The following are NOT good reasons for/against cloning as they have NOTHING TO DO WITH IT:

Producing cannon fodder in war:We call this "conscription" people get annoyed at it, regardless of whether clones are involved.
Producing free workers: We call this "slavery" people get annoyed at it, regardless of whether clones are involved.
Organ harvesting: We call this "assault, surgery, and organ harvesting" people get annoyed at it, regardless of whether clones are involved. Cloning makes it somewhat easier, but there's still an illegal organ trade going on now.

The Island and House of the Scorpian are not arguments against cloning. They're arguements against locking people up and cutting out their organs.

 

[ottenni]

Hell Yeah! Bring on the minions!

 

[Kron_the_mad wants to be deleted]

too many people as it is and you want a new way of overcrowding the planet?!

 

[ForgetRealism09]

As cool and clever as cloning could be, we don't need it. Humanity is doing fine without an increase in population and a dozen other problems clone related.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

I think it would be cool to have a few more mes in the world...
They could do all my work for me.

But wouldn't they all protest, considering they are essentially you? (That is of course, if their memories are replicated too) they would also consider themselves better than other clones and think they should have all the others (including you) working for them, then you would all fight amoungst yourselves, which would look a little bit like the scene in that futurama episode where they create a box containing an alternate universe, and Leela fights her alternate self (Couldn't find a video of it)

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

why raise a human just so that his/her organs can be harvested for the original? This notion is brought up in texts like My Sister's Keeper and The House of the Scorpion.

Yeah, I mean, why not just clone the organ itself?

 

[Sven und EIN HUND]

We're killing the planet, why speed that process up with more assholes?

Also a personal reason would be I don't want to see myself running around

 

[Amnestic]

Why not? I mean, besides the religious opposition of "Playing God" do we really have a reason not to clone people?

One argument I hear often used is that they will be used for organ harvesting. Think about it; anyone who could afford it would have clones made of themselves who would be perfect blood, organ, marrow, you name it donors for them. They would keep this clones in captivity until they needed an organ, at which time the clones would be forced to go through with the transplant.

That argument falls flat on its face when you realise we can just clone organs and we don't need to clone a full human copy to get said organs. Not sure about bone marrow, but I don't doubt that if we're not there yet, we will be before long. Clones wouldn't be kept in captivity as organ farms because it'd be a pointless waste of money. It'd be cheaper and more efficient to just clone single organs for transplants.

We're killing the planet, why speed that process up with more assholes?

You should teach birth control in Africa.

 

[A.A.K]

only on the condition that we're using em for human organs or soldiers. if you start treatin' like people they will think they are people. and that would be a lie!