Cloning Dogs

That reminds me of a movie with Arnorld Swaz$#%#%$, Don't remeber the Title but I like the movie....

Next thing you know we'll really have a Jurassic Park... When are they going to clone snakes already?! They could help increase the population of endangered snakes!

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

Gonna be a crazy world when we clone someone to use their body parts for their clone!

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There was an episode of Sliders that dealt with that. Remmy and the gang landed in a world where clones of people were 'warehoused' for spare parts. A group of the clones escaped and were fighting for independence. The gang had to choose sides, and both side had good arguments. Good episode. Made you think.

However, I have to say that I am excited by the prospect that genetic engineering is advancing so quickly. Not for the sake of clones, per say, but rather the other possibilities that it means for the future of humanity. Perhaps there will soon come a day when body parts can be grown from a persons own cells, and relying on donors will become a thing of the past. Every day thousands of people die waiting on lists for a vital organ... I see advances like this as a first step toward a better world.

Perhaps a breakthrough in genetically predetermined diseases like Crohns and diabetes is next?

Yes, there will be people who fear advances like this and who will dwell on the possibilities of misusing this technology, but consider the fact that your computers are most likely running thanks to nuclear power. Nuclear power can light up a city or make one vanish in a mushroom cloud; technology is just a tool with no inherent good or evil. The only place such morality is found is in the hearts of the people who wield it.

Yet even having said that, I do not believe it to be an excuse to holding back or denying new technology. Our ancestors made that mistake several hundred years ago during the Dark Ages. For 800 years scientific discovery and progress were ground nearly to a halt over fears of what it might discover. I'd rather keep moving forward.