Cloning...doesn't really have any benefits. I find it amazing how much people really don't get cloning. There is very little difference between giving birth to a baby naturally and cloning, other than we have trouble cloning. AS soon as we figure out the technicalities of it, great, yay...we'll be able to make people pregnant.
Morons. We've been able to do that for years.
So what does it mean to give birth to a clone? Well, what's it like to have twins? They look the same, but they each have their own character traits right? Well, think about this. They are two people who have the same DNA, and are brought up in the same environment...and they are still different people. Imagine what a clone will be like of someone who was brought up in completely different environment.
Originally posted by Parsons
I do agree that with limited research, cloning could be a disaster, but, eventually, we would be able to clone whole people. What are the benifits? What if someone was born handicapped. couldn't their clone lead a normal life, if their clone was made from a healthy cell.
Well, if it was a direct clone, no, the clone would have the handicap too.
If you genetically engineered the clone to not have the handicap, then it wouldn't...but at a time when such technology is available, it would make much more sense to just prevent the original person from having the handicap.
But most importantly...whats the benefit here? You aren't fixing the problem faced by the person with the handicap...you are just replacing them. Do you plan on killing the original handicap? Or do you think they will just fade into the background as the new and improved version of them is born?
Anyway, I am yet to hear of a real good applicable for Cloning Human Beings. In fact, with that in mind, I have actually heard of many good reasons not to.
but, even so, I do not think we should 'Ban' such a technology. It is not inherently evil. Its just something which people will quickly realize was a waste of their money. They could have just had sex the old fashioned way and had another kid.