Thanks, Dragadon, for not taking offense (at least it seems you didn't) at my post. I don't generally relish engaging in controversial topics but somehow I got worked up by this one. I later hoped that I had not come on too strong.
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Originally posted by Dragadon:
I think Rettick was refering to the personality...not the genetics. Sure we may inherit certain key aspects of our personality (ie. most members of my family are quiet and withdrawn in someway), but only the 'aspects'. The rest of what makes you 'you' is how you grow up.
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I realize that Rettick was talking about the environmental influences on what a person eventually becomes, and I agree with his point that a genetically identical person would be somewhat different (primarily personality-wise, as you point out) by virtue of it being impossible to experience the same upbringing. My point was that scientists doing cloning research weren't particularly interested in that aspect -- that they were focused on reproducing identical sets of genes. I was probably taking offense at his suggestion that some of us didn't really understand what a clone was, which I shouldn't have done. Heck, between this stem-cell stuff and what the real point of all this research really is, it's pretty confusing. But interesting to think about.