Broadside
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- Posted: Tue, 18 May 2010 02:27:00 +0000
Golden Dysprosium
How is it "immoral"? That's what I don't get. "OMG! We made a copy of something! We're violating the laws of the universe!" I still dont' understand why we're using a 2,000yr old storybook compilation, written by a bunch of highly opinionated (and often drugged up) desert folk, written at a time when it was thought bits of rotting meat turned into flies to guide modern society. xp
My point was that my religion had little bearing on my opinion of human cloning. It's still far more potentially harmful than beneficial.
Golden Dysprosium"Designer babies" (ugly title, in my opinion) came from the paranoia crowd after someone purposed (and eventually developed a way to) change certain traits in children so that they wouldn't be born with certain genetic defects. It came from the idea that if we can alter the genes which would increase the odds of someone getting, say, osteoperosis, why can't we change other things? We could then market it. Hence, "designer babies".[/quote]
Is it really wise to change every changeable part of the human DNA sequence? Think about it. There are people who would pay good money to have a child with a certain height, eye/hair color, skin type, and all sort of purely aesthetic traits. No matter how you look at it, this will lead to chaos for the human gene pool as a whole.
Everything does. Telemarketing, e-mail spam, hedge funds...it all depends on who's using it. Typically, the developers have a more innocuous use for their creations.
None of these abuses have affected human beings like cloning w
Is it really wise to change every changeable part of the human DNA sequence? Think about it. There are people who would pay good money to have a child with a certain height, eye/hair color, skin type, and all sort of purely aesthetic traits. No matter how you look at it, this will lead to chaos for the human gene pool as a whole.
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It's impossibly naive not to believe that these technologies won't rapidly fall into catastrophic abuse.
Everything does. Telemarketing, e-mail spam, hedge funds...it all depends on who's using it. Typically, the developers have a more innocuous use for their creations.
None of these abuses have affected human beings like cloning w
8id2dw1d:2="Golden Dysprosium"Designer babies" (ugly title, in my opinion) came from the paranoia crowd after someone purposed (and eventually developed a way to) change certain traits in children so that they wouldn't be born with certain genetic defects. It came from the idea that if we can alter the genes which would increase the odds of someone getting, say, osteoperosis, why can't we change other things? We could then market it. Hence, "designer babies".[/quote]
Is it really wise to change every changeable part of the human DNA sequence? Think about it. There are people who would pay good money to have a child with a certain height, eye/hair color, skin type, and all sort of purely aesthetic traits. No matter how you look at it, this will lead to chaos for the human gene pool as a whole.
[quote][quote]It's impossibly naive not to believe that these technologies won't rapidly fall into catastrophic abuse.[/quote]
Everything does. Telemarketing, e-mail spam, hedge funds...it all depends on who's using it. Typically, the developers have a more innocuous use for their creations.[/quote]
None of these abuses have affected human beings like cloning would.
Is it really wise to change every changeable part of the human DNA sequence? Think about it. There are people who would pay good money to have a child with a certain height, eye/hair color, skin type, and all sort of purely aesthetic traits. No matter how you look at it, this will lead to chaos for the human gene pool as a whole.
[quote][quote]It's impossibly naive not to believe that these technologies won't rapidly fall into catastrophic abuse.[/quote]
Everything does. Telemarketing, e-mail spam, hedge funds...it all depends on who's using it. Typically, the developers have a more innocuous use for their creations.[/quote]
None of these abuses have affected human beings like cloning would.