Who here feels cloning is a good thing?

Question

I see no problem with cloning animals to isolate desired traits or to reanimate a dead pet.

How about doing the same with humans. Reanimate Einstein, Plato, Aristotle, Michelangelo. And maybe Jesus himself if we could find his DNA.

Answer 1

no way
never

Answer 2

Really, really bad idea. Monkeying around with genetics has already given us such modern wonders as HIV and Ebola, and new diseases every day as they accidentally release their latest creations on the world.

Given the absence of a real moral compass that characterizes Western civilization, it's inevitable that cloning will be used to create new, permanent slaves who cannot demand freedom because (once again, Tah-dah!) they aren't "human".

The West is in love with the idea of slaves, of owning fellow human beings and dramatizing their evil purposes on them without restraint or repercussion. This is why the West has so many serial killer/torturers and has had them for so long. It's why they periodically indulge in orgies of murder against people of the East and Middle East (anyplace outside of Europe), why today a hundred years after African-Americans were "freed" by President Lincoln there are still millions of European-Americans who are working day and night to prevent social, economic and educational equality between blacks and whites. It's why the Ruling Families of America and Western Europe are, even now, moving full speed ahead to turn out the light of freedom over the entire world, once and for all, and make us all slaves.

North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean Islands, the Pacific Islands, wherever Western civilization landed, if it had the superior technology and the numbers, it took the land from the indigenous people and enslaved them.

The West loves slaves far too much for cloning to be a good idea.

Answer 3

I think it's good for things like cloning endangered species. But just because it's a clone doesn't mean it'll have the same character as the thing that was the original. It'd be like having a complete other animal that just looked the same.

Answer 4

one cannot 're-animate' anything through the process of cloning and you cannot re-create any particular human being. all you could do is copy the genes of the subject in question, after that, environment plays as important a role as genetics so even if you could re-create say einstein or jesus from dna, everything that ever happened to them, when it happened to them, and why it happened to them, would have to be exactly the same...exactly. you CANNOT do that, therefore, cloning another plato, is just a dream...but i think the future of what you speak may be in cryogenics...just ask walt disney or ted williams...

Answer 5

A scientist once walked up to God and said "God, we don't need you any more, we can now make people out of nothing but dirt."

God said, "Show me".

The scientist bent down and grabbed some dirt and started forming it and God stopped him, "No, no. Go get your own dirt."

Acts 5:38....for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: 39 But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

PS: Has anyone ever wondered why the only charity foundation Howard Hughes ever gave to had an uncommonly early interest in the science of clonning?

Answer 6

No. Absolutely not. Not even animals. This is so incredibly against the natural order of this Universe.

"Dividing genes and cloning sheep --
These secrets God alone should keep.
It is beyond the physical
The we will find our truer call.
Akashic records we must seek
And thus our bond with God we keep."

Answer 7

Cloning in and of itself is neither 'good' nor 'bad' it simply is what it is. However, taking into account the way our society is structured cloning can cause a great deal of trouble on many levels.

Answer 8

Cloning was originally conceived to bring back endangered species. Not dinosars, but Pandas and others who are on the edge. With 6 billion people on earth, we hardly count as endangered, unless you count our ability to blow each other up.

Answer 9

Genetics pre wires our physical form. Personality and knowledge is a blank slate from birth. Sorree. Plato could just be any other guy.

Answer 10

Well, cloning can be good, but if a whole flock of sheep were just clones, then a new form of virus could easily kill all of them.

Answer 11

Why do we suppose that anything as simplistic and unimpressive as cloning has any significance on a cosmic scale. It is only a mechanical combining of mundane physical characteristics to produce very predictable and elementary results.