Stem Cells and Human Cloning

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Originally posted by Gargen
i would wanna get my future hot wife cloned, if you know what i mean

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What if you got divorced Garden! :shock: Twice the alomony. JK. :)

Going to be hailed for their genius. = Quite possible. If we stick to embriotic research and developement. ( I am not sure if this has been pointed out, I did not see it.) But the embrios that the scientist use are, for a lack of a better word, clinical waste. So they would be going to waste anyway. But then you go back to the abortion issue and that whole debate.

Going to be ostracized from society. - I don't think so.

Going to hell. - What about heavan? Or neither?

about the hell thing,

every religion has somewhere or a lower place that bad people go, (if you don’t have a religion then you just have morals to go on)

The world will become over populated, whether or not people's life spans are increased. Humans are both an R-selected and a K-selected species.

An R-selected species is one in which it's population is only limited by the rate at which it can reproduce... eg locusts.

A K-selected species is one in which the population is limited by the available resources.

The difference with humans is that when we reach the limit of our resources we have a war, and out of this we create new technologies to boost our resources (refridgeration, better farming, higher yeilds). Therefore, with the boost in population that we might experience from a drammatically increased life expectency we would also be implemeting new technologies (genetically modified foods for higher yields etc).

Also, I think that the longer we live the better off we will be. Just think, if we suddenly started living for 150 years. People would be more likely to think about the evironment, and making sure that the earth etc is still good for a longer time, instead of being careless because they're going to die soon anyways.

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Originally posted by Roller
Also, I think that the longer we live the better off we will be. Just think, if we suddenly started living for 150 years. People would be more likely to think about the evironment, and making sure that the earth etc is still good for a longer time, instead of being careless because they're going to die soon anyways.

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I wish I could agree.
I don't think fifty years would change our ways of thinking and satisfy our egoes anymore than if we lived 200 years..
I think over population and the out-resourcing and consumtion of our natural resources is inevitable. With longer life spans it would just happen sooner.

Its not really like the clone of you is you.The clone mentaly is a new person that looks like you. Eh clone me I would like to have a

MINI ME!!!!!!! :evil:

and thats why human cloning should not happen thank you!

lol