Cloning Dogs

[Patrick Long]

I read in a magazine that we as humans have successfully cloned over 21 species from dogs and cats to goats and horses.

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

[OhBalls]

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

EXACTLY why it creeps me out so much....

could not imagine two of me...LOL..."Does my clone make my but look big?"

[Patrick Long]

"Does my clone make my but look big?"

HA!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nevohraalnavnoj]

Clones would be sweet. Unlike Attack of the Clones, which was not sweet at all.

JonV

[EvilDes]

Have any of you guys seen the film "The Island" with Ewan McGregor in it?

That gives quite an insight into what it could be like if cloning of humans was allowed.

[STORMS]

Too weird 4 me.

[Montessa Python]

When you are faced with the fact your dog has died from something, either cancer or old age or an accident. You miss that companionship, and that special relationship you had with that four footed friend.
I wanted to have my akita cloned, he was such a wonderful guy.
I lost my 5 yr old sharpei/hound mix due to that crap tainted dog food and stuff from China. She didn't deserve to die, and suffered for weeks while the vets tried to figure out what was going on with her. I then lost my 10 yr old heeler to cancer less than 6 months later.
I got lucky, I found another sharpei mix and adopted her. And we found the full sister to another dog we had pass on due to a brain tumor, so we adopted her.
BUT as a dog person who has grieved, too much. I understand why these people want to do that.

[nevohraalnavnoj]

Have any of you guys seen the film "The Island" with Ewan McGregor in it?

That gives quite an insight into what it could be like if cloning of humans was allowed.

Wasn't the Island just a remake of Logan's run in disguise??

JonV

[dracovolans]

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

[NightLad]

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

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.