Ahhh Darlin', to stretch your analogy: If mortal man had the option of choosing a destiny that called for him to impregnate thousands, maybe tens of thousands of women (1egg = 1 woman. look its not my fault that salmon are different) and then die . . . I think that would be a river that many men would find worth traveling. Kind of shoot our load and then die as you put it LOL.
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Originally posted by 33girl
I think everyone kind of missed that in my anger I was overstating. Obviously it would have been nice if the people who actually had the kids would stick around to take care of them, but that doesn't always happen for whatever reason (and sometimes to the child's benefit - some people just should not raise children).
Yes we want to perpetuate our own genes, but that's mostly a physiological impulse IMO (see I know my Maslow's hierarchy of needs) and we are supposed to be thinking beings, not just salmon that swim upstream so they can shoot their load and then die. My point is, there are far too many children growing up in foster care here and around the world, and then we have idiots like these 2 who are so in love with their own genes that they're willing to CLONE themselves. Like UF said, they don't want to adopt because of the "health risks" but they are willing to risk heaven knows what with a clone? I feel so bad for this child already - if it doesn't come out perfect the parents will probably try to return it to the lab. 
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