in 10 - 50- 100 years, you get cloning sorted, can a clone stand for president, if the origional, or a clone allready has been? Should this bill be put through asap, they could be harvesting the bush families dna s we speak, is bush forever a idea that creeps you out as much as it does me.. I only mean all this half seriously, but for the sake of a quick 1 line bill.... no clone can be president, or no originals of a clone..... why not make it law..
2006-08-25 22:52:49 · 23 answers · asked by yeah well 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I do realise this seems pretty stupid, it makes me laugh... but why not have it in the legislation ? it cant hurt?
2006-08-25 23:00:58 · update #1
didnt think of the positives bushman- thanks..
2006-08-25 23:02:11 · update #2
Holy cow man! Pass the stuff over here, I want a toke too!
2006-08-25 22:57:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
First of all, you can only win 2 terms. If a president dies shortly after election, the vice president becomes president. He can still be elected 2 more times, and effectively serve almost a full 3 terms.
Now to answer your question. A clone of someone, assuming it was possible, would have the same DNA as the other person, with different lifetime experiences. In essense, a clone would be an indentical twin. Therefore there should be no reason a clone could not run for president after his "twin" had served 2 terms.
Your cloning idea is interersting, and reminds me of a variation of it, a short story and I forgot the author, called "Let's Be Frank". All of "Frank"'s descendants were the same person, and shared all their thoughts and experiences. Eventually, there were enough "Franks" to win every election....
2006-08-26 08:05:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The personality of a person is dependant on both nature and nurture. The Sci-Fi movies in which the memories are implanted and the clone is grown super fast are just that - Science Fiction.
Assuming that clones became possible, or even common, each one should be considered an individual.
Each person is considered innocent until proven guilty. To put into law such discrimination would go against Democratic Principles.
;-D To clone or not to clone? That is the question!
2006-08-26 09:57:36 · answer #3 · answered by China Jon 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Clic on over to the science part of this thing and ask someone to explain clones to you. A clone is just basically an identical twin of someone. If they made a clone of GWB it would be like a baby was born who was his twin. Now that baby would still have to grow up, in the America that his Big BrotherDaddy/Clone f****d up.
Here you have the age old Nature/Nurture problem.
Would someone with GWB's heredity, have to turn out the way he did? What if we took the clone GWB baby and for an experiment (totally unethical by all reasonable standards on human experiment) gave it to a Kennedy to raise?
Really you are way ahead of yourselves on worrying.
We should be worrying on whether GWB is going to invade Iran.
2006-08-26 08:01:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
US is having a written constitution. This gives opportunity to any US born to contest in the Presidential Election. On getting elected in the general election s/he can have a term of 5 years and like that one more term he may continue based on people's verdict..
But in some countries like Egypt, Pakistan, Syria, Libiya, etc the citizen elect the dictator to rule because there is only one in the frey. On his death or old age his son or wife or brother becomes the next President unless the govern,ment is toppled by another defense fellow!!!!..
They call this Islamic Democracy........
2006-08-26 06:11:41 · answer #5 · answered by SESHADRI K 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah Well,
What if we were to get a great
Commander in Chief?
Would we not wish him there
for a while?
We could always give him a
face lift, change hair color,
do hair transplants, etc.
I mean, if we've cloned him,
we can pretty much do as
we wish with him?
Now, wouldn't that be a switch?
Sounds like a plan to me!
Oh, I only mean this full seriously....LOL
2006-08-26 07:25:37 · answer #6 · answered by vim 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Before cloning takes place, there's still Jeb Bush who'll be good for eight years. Conservatives know they could get Americans who shop at Walmart to vote for a Rose Bush from the gardening section if they put it on the ballet.
2006-08-26 05:56:45 · answer #7 · answered by Wonderer 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I don't think you can pass a bill on something that is not yet here. Maybe we should take it up when they actually get it going. (hope to God we never have clones, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to have some advanced planing)!
2006-08-26 06:06:09 · answer #8 · answered by smoothsophie 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because then if they were harvesting that DNA from Bush, the government wouldn't want to make it illegal, now would they? Oh, and btw bush only has to be president ONCE to **** up the entire world, which I believe he has already done about 6 times now.
2006-08-26 05:57:03 · answer #9 · answered by Gabe 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Considering scientists who have long sought funding from these people have not received it, I wouldn't worry about "Bush harvesting". Maybe "Nobel harvesting" or "Darwin harvesting" for those more controversial groups, but they'd need to be able to extract the needed dna from almost nothing.
2006-08-26 05:58:13 · answer #10 · answered by minstrel_of_munificence 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They'd just keep cloning Franklin Roosevelt.
2006-08-26 05:59:13 · answer #11 · answered by Crabboy4 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋