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Originally posted by Rettick:
Natural Selection is already non-existant in Humans.
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Alas I am aware of this...it is too late to go back now, unless some major catastrophe (like an astroid hitting the planet) happened that wiped out most of the human race.
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Originally posted by Rettick:
I think it is unfair that anybody is denied the opportunity to survive. I know your statements were in no way intended to suggest this, if we took them to their logical extreme, we would be killing people with genetic disorders at birth, so that their disorders are not passed on, and then we are back to Hitler's old ideas about Racial Purity...
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Aye, I wouldn't wish that on anyone. Like I said...it is too late to turn back. I do believe the stem cell research is a great opertunaty to help those it can benefit.
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Originally posted by Gluk Schmuck:
Which cells? Stem cells? It probably wouldn't need to be killed, but it may disable it.
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Sorry to be the barer of bad news...but the embryo is destroyed when the stem cells are harvested...thus a possible human life ends before it can truly begin. This is what a lot of people are in an uproar about.
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Originally posted by Gluk Schmuck:
Humans like humans because they like their same species but what's to stop us extending our liking to all primates, all mammals, all animals even? (I want an answer to that)
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What's to stop us? Those that only care for themselves and what profits they can make off of the demise of other living beings...unfortunately...there are far too many like that...
Back on the subject of cloning itself...the cloning of organs (just the organs not the whole person) I see as a good method to help all those needing transplants and limbs replaces. However the cloning of a whole human...I am not sure about. It has the protential of being used for evil purposes...but then anything else I would say about it would go back to my 'Natural Selection' rant...
Edit: oh I almost forgot...if anyone is interested here is a link to a message board on a news site on the subject.
http://boards.go.com/cgi/abcnews/req...sc_cloning1126
Be warned...a lot of the topics (at least the ones I read) almost always end up in a religious debate....
[ November 27, 2001: Message edited by: Dragadon ]