Cloning

[Sage Orion]

Cloning should never arrise, but it has.

Ban Cloning for it will destroy human kind!!!!

Cloning is playing with God/trying to be God.
I will hate to see our future with clones walking around!!

Robots as well will destroy our nations working people
and clones both have to go!!!

 

[Michael]

Cloning should never arrise, but it has.

Ban Cloning for it will destroy human kind!!!!

Cloning is playing with God/trying to be God.
I will hate to see our future with clones walking around!!

Robots as well will destroy our nations working people
and clones both have to go!!!

Want to give us a little more substance here? I'm sorry, Jasmine, but you make it too easy for me to do this!

 

[Sage Orion]

What do you mean.....too easy to do this???

 

[Michael]

What do you mean.....too easy to do this???

I'm sorry. I can't help it. Whenever someone uses mainly the Bible or "God commanded it" to back up an argument all I can do think about Pat Robertson. The Bible is an excellent reference and I use it often, but I also like to use other, non-religious or even alterenative religious sources (if I know any relevant to the topic).

The "God commanded it" thing I really can't get behind at all. I need something more than that.

I respect everyone's opinion, of course. Keep expressing yours please!

 

[Sage Orion]

What I meant was towards cloning.

Cloning is not only playing God, but it scares the sh it out of me!!!!

And having Robots live along side people, we'll lose our jobs for sure!!

Technology is already doing that!!

 

[Michael]

What I meant was towards cloning.

Cloning is not only playing God, but it scares the sh it out of me!!!!

And having Robots live along side people, we'll lose our jobs for sure!!

Technology is already doing that!!

That's a little better! There are definitely issues about both cloning and robotics that I find frightening. However, I also think that any way we receive healing is a gift from God. If we can clone only individual organs I'm all for it. This could save a lot of lives.

Most of the reason that anything frightens me is because of how it might be misused or abused by humans. The same goes for robotics and cloning. There are ways to use robots that could actually benefit humankind, I just don't believe that the people in charge will do it that way!

(See--I actually had something to say this time!)

 

[Sage Orion]

Of course you did!!

I totally agree to that staement!!

 

[Hypes]

One should never fear progress, only respect its consequences. Nanomedicine, stem cells and cloning are the future tools of medicine, and we should utilise them to their full extent for the betterment of our species. This has nothing to do with playing God (we have been gods since we lit a fire for the first time); it has everything to do with our advancement as a species.

Cloning, as it stands now, is still in its least advanced stages, and the possibilities once we master this art are endless. As long as we are able to set a international regulations which all scientists are bound by agreement to follow, not banning the process entirely- one can never halt the future. And this is the future.

Michael, you are far too paranoid. There will always be people in power with their own agenda, but I don't see why this should stop us, long-term.

God is an imagined factor, and he always will be. We need to stop hiding behind our beliefs, and pick up the mantle of responsibility for our own species. No one else will.

Robots- Someone read the Butlerian Jihad one too many times. This is not Hollywood, nor is it Frank Herbert's imagination.

 

[Michael]

One should never fear progress, only respect its consequences. Nanomedicine, stem cells and cloning are the future tools of medicine, and we should utilise them to their full extent for the betterment of our species. This has nothing to do with playing God (we have been gods since we lit a fire for the first time); it has everything to do with our advancement as a species.

Cloning, as it stands now, is still in its least advanced stages, and the possibilities once we master this art are endless. As long as we are able to set a international regulations which all scientists are bound by agreement to follow, not banning the process entirely- one can never halt the future. And this is the future.

Michael, you are far too paranoid. There will always be people in power with their own agenda, but I don't see why this should stop us, long-term.

God is an imagined factor, and he always will be. We need to stop hiding behind our beliefs, and pick up the mantle of responsibility for our own species. No one else will.

Robots- Someone read the Butlerian Jihad one too many times. This is not Hollywood, nor is it Frank Herbert's imagination.

No really--I'm not quite that bad! I wouldn't want to bring progress to a halt or anything like that! Distrusting people in power is just my trademark.

Robotics and cloning would be extremely beneficial as long as people do not abuse them. Technology is just another tool, after all.

 

[Hypes]

You can count on someone to abuse it, don't worry. There are always people who will use it for their own purposes.

 

[Michael]

You can count on someone to abuse it, don't worry. There are always people who will use it for their own purposes.

Sad but true, I'm afraid. Still, like you said, that's no reason to stop.

 

[Hypes]

We will simply have to weather the difficulties, and reap the fruits of our labour afterwards.

Either that, or clean up the fallout.