[Bobboau]

yay!:D

[Jetmech Jr.]

WooHoo!!!

[Flipside]

hehehe Has interesting repurcussions for Stem Cell research too, since I can betcha who one of the biggest customers will be

I'm not against the cloning of embryo etc, but I must admit I feel slightly uneasy at the thought of someone nurturing that embryo to birth. Possibly a little Primal distrust, possibly not

[Black Wolf]

Excellent - hopefully this'll losen things up a little on that front.

If it were up to me, everything proposed by the US within the last or next four years would be routinely ignored anyway

[Jetmech Jr.]

[Ace]

If I was the Catholic church, it'd have made the phrasing for their proposal a little more specific so it can't be warped by people:

New sentient beings will not be created through cloning.

Because cloning a few human cells for a liver transplant could be construed as "human life." But the above statement makes a nice blanket statement to ban creating new humans via clones and monkeying around with trying to make whole new humanoid species.

[Flipside]

Last time I checked, the Catholic Church were not in the habit of being specific when passing rules

I'm fine with cloning cells etc, I'd probably be fine with a cloned human, since what most people don't realise is that a clone is not an exact replica of the DNA donator. However, I do find the thought a bit eerie

[Bobboau]

I have no problems with twins, I have no problems with clones.

[aldo_14]

[Mongoose]

Bad idea.  Very bad.  Way to go humanity, just keep opening up those cans of worms.

[Jetmech Jr.]

pfft...

[Black Wolf]

Oh, come on now, give him his due. Alzheimers does rather kick arse after all.

[.::Tin Can::.]

I think the effort to clone another being and make an identical copy with the same physical appearence is wrong, yes, but other than that, who cares?

[Rictor]

Hmm, lets see.

Cloning bits of flesh, which can not be called human in any way, to help people with serious dieseses. Yeah, thats terrible.

Even if they are embryos, and you really want to call them human, then they are humans that are not self-aware, while those who will be helped are self-aware.

[Annihilation]

Yeah! Way to go, man. The first steps for my own personal clone of Carmen Electra are going steady.

[.::Tin Can::.]

As long as it isnt anything like "The Sixth Day" then lets throw a party!

[Flipside]

Originally posted by Annihilation
Yeah! Way to go, man. The first steps for my own personal clone of Carmen Electra are going steady.

That just put an incredibly disturbing image in my head

:shudders:

[Rictor]

Arnold will clone an army himselves to take over the country.

Now the only question is will he do it Commando style with lots of guns or Governator style with a media campaign and millions of dollars.

...or some wierd combination.

[Flipside]

He'll go commando using a million dollar media campaign with lots of guns?

[Mongoose]

All right, since I don't want to spawn yet another debate, can we all agree that, at the very least, a ban on reproductive cloning should be a given and should be pursued as soon as possible?