Quote: "Although they survived for only five days and were smaller than a pinhead."
so it wasn't THAT accurate a clone. Unless he's a very intelligent scientist for a pinhead-sized foetus...
Quote: "there has been huge ethnic backclash"
Unless I'm missing something then I assume you mean ethical. Unless it's specifically offensive to people of certain ethnic backgrounds. Which is always possible I suppose.
Quote: "we're gonna be surrounded by chimera man-bear-pigs one day, not too long from now "
I want one. That would be so cool. It could guard your house AND do your homework. And if you got hungry you could always fry up some lovely rashers of man-bear-bacon (would that count as cannibalism?)
Quote: "So making stem cells from your skin cells to cure near any problem with any body part you have is going to be our undoing?
It's the cure for diabetes, many types of cancer, who knows what else. Just think of growing new lungs for yourself if you get lung cancer. Your kidneys shut down? No problem, we'll grow you some new ones. Bad heart? No problem.
I don't know what all can be done with this type of technology, but a lot of good things can come of it."
That's not exactly what's in question here though. The problem is with actually growing people. Bit morally ambiguous, and also could be a problem when you get crazy manic dictators taking over the world by just cloning an army of billions of people. Which could cause problems.
Quote: "I don't have an ethical problem with cloning, it's just that legally it's a pain in the bum. If one clone committed a murder and was seen doing it, who do they arrest?"
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The whole lot of them. If you don't want to be wrongfully imprisoned, then don't get a clone. Simple.
Quote: "What do you mean? They arrest the one who did it. A clone is *not* the same person as the cloned. They will have their own emotions, etc. and are as real a human as you and I."
But I would imagine they would look a little similar. What with the identical DNA and everything.
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-Bush