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Originally posted by JMUduke
no human cloning!!!!!!! i can't even argue sensibly WHY...I just get nightmares about freaky science fiction movies and I just don't want our world to turn into a science friction freak out...I want it to stay the way it is now, good and bad.
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Unfortunately that's not how the (scientific) world works - there will certainly be humans cloned, whether it be made illegal in the US or not.
There are extreme issues with animal clones right now - DNA defects, congenital diseases, etc. The same, expressed in humans, would certainly be considered horrible and cause intense outrage.
However, there can be useful insights to come out of such experimentation - without the desire to clone humans, for instance, stem cell research would not nearly be what it is today, and that potential would remain untapped.
The bottom line is, it's still imperfect science. I'd say we're decades from a viable human clone - and in that time, who knows if the fervor will continue in the 'rogue science' community. We'll have to wait and see - hopefully enough good can come out of the research to justify the unavoidable bad things that will come out of such efforts.
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