DAVE WANTS TO MAKE MISHY CLONES
interesting topic..haha..
cloning issue has ignited international bioethics debate (the cloning of dolly the sheep..not of me). if scientists can take one cell from a sheep and produce an exact living replica of the sheep, it is very possible that they can do the same with humans (me/us).
those who are against human cloning raise the possibility that some neo-hitler could use the technology to replicate himself and to create an exhaustible supply of super warriors to take over the world. same as the issue raised against the creation of the nuke bomb. they may be overreacting--we've had the bomb for over half a century and we've managed not to vaporize ourselves. of course, nukes and cloning are two different bananas. or are they. the cloning of bananas is a relatively simple procedure; we've been eating cloned bananas for years..(what the??).
to clone the sheep, they took a cell with a nucleus from the udder of an adult sheep. then implanted this nucleus, which contains the generic information of the first sheep, into an egg cell from a second sheep to form an embryo..(phew)..the embryo was then implanted into a third sheep -- the surrogate mother--which "gave birth" to dolly. dolly is an exact copy of the first sheep. the procedure is chunky, and dolly was produced after hundreds of tries. many of the animals produced died with physical defects.
i have a few questions before i agree to be cloned..haha..assuming a similar procedure will be done to me, who will be my clones parents? say i am cloned (horrible thought), and michelle 2 is an exact copy of me. who are michelle 2's parents?
a) me
b) my parents
c) the surrogate mom
d) the genetic scientists who did the cloning procedure - the dr. frankensteins
then again, i could opt to give birth to my own clone, in which case
a) i would be giving birth to myself and
b) i would be my own parents
there are other issues to be settled. is it okay to sleep with a clone? in doing so, you are melding with not an individual, but a model, of which there could be thousands. you give your erotic libido not to one person but to an army of identical clones. so much for one woman for one man, at least one at a time.
since cloning requires just one cell from the original source, it would be possible to create a horde of, say, brad pitt clones. i see multitudes of women giving birth to brad pitt clones, and twenty years later multitudes of women marrying brad pitt clones. and since the women who give birth to the brad clones are not his biological mothers, they can marry these clones. oedipus complex to the max! :((
lets not even go into the identity crisis epidemic that would arise as clones ponder the question., who am i?
of course for a clone to be an exact replica of the natural born human, she would have to be raised in the same conditions and undergo the same experiences. even then this will not guarantee that she will be exactly like the original. but let us assume for purposes of speculation that it is possible to create a clone which is in all aspects -physical, psychological, spiritual - an exact replica of a person. theoretically that person would be able to live forever, cloned to the nth generation. now i'm talking about immortality. :O
cloning will probably be expensive, which now brings us to the subject of economic discrimination. obviously, only rich people can afford to have themselves cloned; they can afford to be immortal. if a rich person falls ill and needs transplants, he could have himself cloned to harvest the required body parts. shall we have a thriving market in cloned limbs and organs?
what becomes of the clone, then?
does the clone have human rights?
will the clones be considered inferior to natural born humans? will apartheid (did i spell that correctly?) make a comeback?, this time with the nat born people discriminating against the lab products?
do clones have souls? or do they share a soul with the natural born cell donor, like extension credit card holders sharing a credit limit?
i'm getting a headache..
and ohh..i'm sorry hunnie.. I DON'T WANT TO BE CLONED :p
cloning issue has ignited international bioethics debate (the cloning of dolly the sheep..not of me). if scientists can take one cell from a sheep and produce an exact living replica of the sheep, it is very possible that they can do the same with humans (me/us).
those who are against human cloning raise the possibility that some neo-hitler could use the technology to replicate himself and to create an exhaustible supply of super warriors to take over the world. same as the issue raised against the creation of the nuke bomb. they may be overreacting--we've had the bomb for over half a century and we've managed not to vaporize ourselves. of course, nukes and cloning are two different bananas. or are they. the cloning of bananas is a relatively simple procedure; we've been eating cloned bananas for years..(what the??).
to clone the sheep, they took a cell with a nucleus from the udder of an adult sheep. then implanted this nucleus, which contains the generic information of the first sheep, into an egg cell from a second sheep to form an embryo..(phew)..the embryo was then implanted into a third sheep -- the surrogate mother--which "gave birth" to dolly. dolly is an exact copy of the first sheep. the procedure is chunky, and dolly was produced after hundreds of tries. many of the animals produced died with physical defects.
i have a few questions before i agree to be cloned..haha..assuming a similar procedure will be done to me, who will be my clones parents? say i am cloned (horrible thought), and michelle 2 is an exact copy of me. who are michelle 2's parents?
a) me
b) my parents
c) the surrogate mom
d) the genetic scientists who did the cloning procedure - the dr. frankensteins
then again, i could opt to give birth to my own clone, in which case
a) i would be giving birth to myself and
b) i would be my own parents
there are other issues to be settled. is it okay to sleep with a clone? in doing so, you are melding with not an individual, but a model, of which there could be thousands. you give your erotic libido not to one person but to an army of identical clones. so much for one woman for one man, at least one at a time.
since cloning requires just one cell from the original source, it would be possible to create a horde of, say, brad pitt clones. i see multitudes of women giving birth to brad pitt clones, and twenty years later multitudes of women marrying brad pitt clones. and since the women who give birth to the brad clones are not his biological mothers, they can marry these clones. oedipus complex to the max! :((
lets not even go into the identity crisis epidemic that would arise as clones ponder the question., who am i?
of course for a clone to be an exact replica of the natural born human, she would have to be raised in the same conditions and undergo the same experiences. even then this will not guarantee that she will be exactly like the original. but let us assume for purposes of speculation that it is possible to create a clone which is in all aspects -physical, psychological, spiritual - an exact replica of a person. theoretically that person would be able to live forever, cloned to the nth generation. now i'm talking about immortality. :O
cloning will probably be expensive, which now brings us to the subject of economic discrimination. obviously, only rich people can afford to have themselves cloned; they can afford to be immortal. if a rich person falls ill and needs transplants, he could have himself cloned to harvest the required body parts. shall we have a thriving market in cloned limbs and organs?
what becomes of the clone, then?
does the clone have human rights?
will the clones be considered inferior to natural born humans? will apartheid (did i spell that correctly?) make a comeback?, this time with the nat born people discriminating against the lab products?
do clones have souls? or do they share a soul with the natural born cell donor, like extension credit card holders sharing a credit limit?
i'm getting a headache..
and ohh..i'm sorry hunnie.. I DON'T WANT TO BE CLONED :p
2 Comments:
interesting... you really could be your own grandpa/ma
How do they know it's an exact replica of the sheep anyway? Maybe I missed something, but don't 90% of naturally born sheep look alike?
I think these cloning experiments should be abandoned. What use is it to create someone who looks like someone else? I see it causing more problems than it could ever solve. The process seems like one huge farce to me; it still requires a regular pregnancy, birth and upbringing. Why would you want to have a baby with someone elses face, when you could have a baby with it's own identity? I just hope I'm dead before someone puts it all to use on a human.
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