I believe cloning has its uses, but that doesn't mean mankind won't abuse it. In the right hands, though, it could probably do wonders to cure disease and help with other things. I'm very torn between my idealistic side, which sees everything in shades of gray, and my cynical side, where everything is black and white...
Okay, I understand population control and all that shit, but some things you do NOT want to die of. They're just too painful, and drugs won't touch them. It's bad stuff like that, you know? And I don't think of suicide as ever being the answer. Plus, would you want to be the one who tells the 5 year old that because of some moral obligation to the "natural ways" she'll never see her 6th birthday, her first kiss, her prom, her graduation, her wedding, her children, her grandchild, her life? I wouldn't. Circumstances must be considered. Cloning is not evil. Unnatural, maybe, but we were made to be adaptable. PS: Not picking on you, kitty. Just using your last post as a launchpad.
Actually, space exploration has done a lot here on earth. Power wheel chairs, water purification systems, scratch-proof lenses, portable coolers/warmers, brest cancer detection, human tissue stimulater, engine lubricant, etc etc, this list goes on and on. So, my point is that space exploaration hasn't been done in vain. Good, usefull things have come from it, as well as science in general. Just think, how would our intellect grow without imagining the impossible and exploring? As for war, that's just nature..animals fight, exile eachother, discriminate, etc. As humans, we have the brain power to create explosives, so we just take it to another level. I'm not saying, by any means it's a good thing..just sometimes talking it over doesn't get through to either side. And back to cloning..i'm not a huge fan of it. There is still a bunch we don't know about cloning. Plus, it's a lot more complicated than animal cloning. Also, clones have shortened telomeres. Telomeres hold the key to genetic clocking. For example, if you clone a 10 year old, when they are 20, their clone will be 10 years old. Since their DNA was given to them at the age of 10, they are already behind 10 years from an average person, therefore, their lifespan is automatically shorter.
For your information, I watched my mother die slowly of diabetes. Her suffering was cut short when she was killed falling out of her wheelchair onto the hard floor of her nursing home. The nursing home was negligent, but I still consider it a blessing. Do not get all high and mighty on me.
Well don't you think that if the child or person is suppose to die, then why play the Gods' role and prevent it? In my religion preventing death is preventing the soul from going to the next life or spiral. Each spiral the soul goes up the closer the soul enters "Summerland" or "heaven" to be with the Gods. I know I brought religion into this, but no one knows what happens after death. We just have fate. All we know is that there is a force that determines when we die in this lifetime. Why should we disrupt these forces? Don't you think if we disrupt these forces we will create a deseaster amongst the masses? We can only hold back a force for so long until it explodes. It's like building a dam against powerful waters. Eventually the dam will cave in. We all have our own destinys. We can not stop what happens. We just need to flow through them.
