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Date Posted: 22:32:11 04/08/02 Mon
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In reply to: Kathyrn 's message, "I beg to differ... There is one major problem." on 18:56:56 04/08/02 Mon

...discover what's over the horizon is to risk sailing off the edge of the Earth. It may raise daunting ethical/moral questions. But, it is the way of our Species to take risks; to discover the difference between sitting on a hot stove-lid and sitting on a cold one; to question all the shoulds & shouldn'ts.

I do not dispute your position that there may be problems. But the proverbial genie is not going back into the bottle. Nobody's going to shame it back in, legislate it back in, or scare it back in. And the kind of police-state it would take to make some gratuitous prohibition of cloning APPEAR to be enforceable--would come at an extreme cost. Consider the ongoing Holy War against Liberty, Privacy & Property in the name of "Drugs." Multiply those abuses of power by some large number, and you'll have an idea what a climate of terror might be inflicted on us in the name of a Holy War Against Demon Cloning. RKBA! Be well. Regards, all.

>>Human cloning happens every time a fertilized egg
>>becomes identical twins. The hysteria over cloning is
>>consuming the time, attention & other resources of
>>legislatures all over the world. Those resources
>>would otherwise be applied to things legislatures
>>usually inflict on us--things that do us no good but
>>hurt us worse. Long as they're running in circles,
>>screaming & shouting over The Evils Of Cloning,
>>they aren't taking things away from us and making
>>everything we do cost us more. So it's kinda like
>>Bingo. RKBA! Regards, all.
>-------------------------------------------------
>
>All ethical questions aside. There is still one major
>problem...
>
>One need only look to dolly the sheep.
>
>We do not know how to turn back the bio-time clock!
>
>Therefore, once a human clone reachs maturity
>(Hopefully that long) It will age and start to suffer
>at an excelerated rate!
>
>Immulating the Donor- ie., the original person at
>their present age...
>
>Let us hope that the future clone the woman is
>carrying is from a young donor!
>
>Otherwise, this could turn out to be a real pathetic
>Frankinstein tragedy...

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