|
Memberlist | Forum Rules | Search | Today's Posts | Mark Forums Read |
Search Forums: | Click here to use Advanced Search |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
12-03-2006, 10:06 PM | #1 | ||
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Baltezers, Latvia
Posts: 432
|
I was reading an article recently, the author was strongly against cloning, allthough he didn't say why (cloning wasn't the main point of the article), so I was wondering: what's so bad about genetic engeneering, cloning, birthcontrol and other beneficial but controversial stuff (I mean besides god says so, as god hasn't spoken for at least 500 years)
and let's keep this one civilised, after all we've asked them about it. |
||
|
|
12-03-2006, 10:13 PM | #2 | ||
|
Well, for me in such things it's a degree of unpredictability coupled with a certain ammount of unnecessity and the lazyness that comes forth from seemingly easy solutions without eye for possible consequences.
But of course this topic is formulated so broadly it's impossible to throw it out in general :P
__________________
|
||
|
|
12-03-2006, 10:17 PM | #3 | ||
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Baltezers, Latvia
Posts: 432
|
should I split it three ways then (cloning|GE|BC|)? I kind of thought they were part of the same *problem* (for the lack of a better word)
|
||
|
|
12-03-2006, 10:40 PM | #4 | ||
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
Posts: 1,867
|
I guess genetical engineering is a new technology, and as with every other technology you have to be careful and research it well...
About cloning, genes degrade too heavily for it to be efficient, Dolly only lived half of average sheeps life and her death was caused by a diesase that sheeps get when they're old, so you could say she died of "old age"
__________________
[14-12, 16:08] TotalAnarchy: but the greatest crime porn has done is the fact that it's all fake and emotionless, that's why I prefer anime hentai frankly |
||
|
|
12-03-2006, 10:43 PM | #5 | ||
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Norwich, England
Posts: 1,325
|
Yeah, the reason Dolly died so young is becuase that she was the age of the sheep the DNA was taken from when she was born. This is becuase the reason that peopel get unhealthy as they get old is their DNA decaying and developing faults. The DNA that Dolly was cloned from had already aged about 4 years, therefore cutting that amount off her lifespan. Technology has improved and scientists have learnt from this though.
|
||
|
|
13-03-2006, 12:01 AM | #6 | ||
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: ,
Posts: 690
|
Cloning is not something I want to see people accomplish. Genetic engineering is different, if you are modifying your own genetics or by use of cyborg type stuff. Now, birth control is something entirely different. Considering that all live arose from Primordial soup, I do not see the difference in loss of life from boiling a spit bubble or flushing your crap down the toilet than using some form of spermicide and abortions. Bacteria is living celled organisms too, yet we kill them by the trillions daily. I guess the government should say that all men are prohibited from getting a vasectomy, even though they are reversible, because it could prevent the creation of potential life. Life is life. We kill ourselves daily then complain that we are killing potential humans? Oh no, that "currently unwanted child" has to grow up in a potentially worse environment, which can perturb its mental settings, and thus could end up with criminals, or much worse, rapists or psychopathic murderers. But then again, any human being has the ability to do that. We are the more advanced mammal, and yet we can be feral and stupid all the time....
Since when could any foreign power, no matter how powerful, say "No, stupid. You gotta have that kid. We don't care whether you can take care of it, we'll put its sorry behind someplace else, regardless of how miserable its life may be." Or, "You will go to hell if you kill that potential kid." Stupid *meeeping* government, you guys know you buy your mistresses abortions... |
||
|
|
13-03-2006, 12:13 AM | #7 | ||
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Baltezers, Latvia
Posts: 432
|
actualy you can't alter your own Genetic code (well you can, but that would be like correcting errors in all the copies of war and peace by hand), it's more like cloning++.
by the way, does anyone consider puting electronic devices in yourself wrong? if so, what's your resoning? P.S. Wierd, I had you down as one of thems 'mericans... :blink: |
||
|
|
13-03-2006, 06:14 AM | #8 | ||
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Shella, Kenya
Posts: 252
|
Well, I think cloning bodyparts is OK, cloning whole people is useless.
May sound pretty simple, but that's my opinion regarding this. I don't care enough about the whole DNA topic to have a more differentiated opinion. |
||
|
|
14-03-2006, 12:25 AM | #9 | ||
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Calgary, Canada
Posts: 105
|
Quote:
A secular humanist (but not pure materialist) would argue that each child deserves to be a unique being, but the expectations of a clone to have the same qualities, interests, or aptitutes will try to stymie a clone's attempt to be its own person. Given how difficult to replicate the complete developement history of an individual (especially if you can only rely on the subject's memory), the clone is less likely to resemble his parent than the parent's siblings. The Twin Studies that give the impression that clones will resemble their parents are flawed, at best, or, at worst, outright fraud. Based on identical twins, clones will be their own people. |
||
|
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Ground Control | Tom Henrik | G | 0 | 14-12-2006 01:37 PM |
Blind From Birth | FISHCHAIR | Blah, blah, blah... | 6 | 24-09-2006 05:19 AM |
Oh Noes! The Abandonia Image! | Danny252 | Blah, blah, blah... | 17 | 27-10-2005 07:49 PM |
Happy Birth Day Stroggy | Ioncannon | Blah, blah, blah... | 42 | 21-04-2005 08:06 AM |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
||
  |