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Would you clone yourself or a loved one?

Posted by latinocool79 • 3/27/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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We are getting to that point (if not that we already can) of cloning human being. Would you clone another "you" or a deceased loved one? I think I would clone my wife but would she be the same?

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3/27/08

Naturalwoman

yeah i would...just cause i'm greedy.

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3/27/08

neobluepanther

I don't think I would like to clone myself.

A loved one...perhaps.

But, if I did that, I would be prepared to accept that the "clone" could be a whole new person, personality-wise.

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3/27/08

latinocool79

All the nature vs nurture discussion. I believe in God so it is hard to figure out how this person's soul would be like. Of course if you believe in such a thing. My spiritual side says it is a no no to do it but my gut would want my wife, or son back so much.

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3/27/08

Anok

Hmmm. NO to cloning in general.

That stuff freaks me out *shudder*

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1. 3/28/08
  
  LGramlich
  
  Agreed.
3/27/08

kevingoodman

Yes I would take alot of clones - free labor....I would be working myself really hard.

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1. 3/27/08
  
  DrowseyMonkey
  
  If I was looking for free labour I wouldn't clone myself ... I'm kinda lazy. But other than that, I do think I'm clone worthy.
3/27/08

offendedblogger

No because the cost would be undoubtedly higher than I am willing to pay, plus I agree with what Anok said, it is just way too creepy in general!

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1. 3/27/08
  
  kevingoodman
  
  but think of what you could accomplish 100 times made over!
  
  and once you made the accomplishment you just terminate them - right becasue you are the real you.
2. 3/27/08
  
  offendedblogger
  
  That is cold and heartless.
  
  Hmmm.. but tempting. I am all for cheap labor.
3. 3/27/08
  
  kevingoodman
  
  cold - heartless. Cmon your only hurting yourself and not really. Oh yeah - thank what you could get away with - wasn’t you!
4. 3/27/08
  
  Anok
  
  Ah, but Kevin, would it be cost effective? Chelle brings up a good point, those clones are a bit expensive to make....
5. 3/28/08
  
  twistedteenager
  
  It would be like killing a brother or sister. I'd clone myself to find out what I was like to kiss. Perverted I know, but I'd like to know...
  
  Ha ha
3/27/08

acousticguitarist

Oh myself of course, then I could do very cool guitar duets and sing harmonies

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1. 3/27/08
  
  latinocool79
  
  well, remember that you would have to wait until your copy get to an age where he can play the guitar. Maybe it would be a grandson-grandpa kinda group
2. 3/28/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  that's ok, i used to play guitar with my friend Ike and he was in his late sixties
3/27/08

acousticguitarist

I had a conversation by phone with very dear friend that lives at the other side of the world that I hadn't seen for a long time, I was running through a lot of concepts about life and other intersting subjects and at the end of it she said to me that they should pickle my brain and use it in the future and for experiments. But I guess with the concept of cloning it would be much easier to just copy the whole person.

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3/27/08

kdawg68

only if I could make an army of hot slave chicks that would obey my every command.

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1. 3/27/08
  
  DrowseyMonkey
  
  We're talking science not science fiction
2. 3/28/08
  
  acousticguitarist
  
  nay nay nay
3/27/08

7masterheathen

Mmmmm. A definite no. It would be tempting to clone my wife or my cats, but they would not be the same. The personality is help to form by experiences and choices. Once those are changed, the personality will also be changed. That would be truly depressing if you were to give the go ahead to cloning someone you love and they were not the same. I wouldn't clone myself either. Too freaky. Not even for the extra body parts in the future that I might need for health reasons. That's really sick, man.

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3/27/08

latinocool79

I am not for it but eventually they will do it and people won't adopt and have less babies. No more down syndromes or malformations (I guess). I don't think it is sick I just agree with some about the freaky part.

On another note, what if the Turin shroud, which is supposed to have covered Jesus, has some DNA. Now that would be real freaky to clone.

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1. 3/27/08
  
  Anok
  
  SO if Jesus were cloned, would that mean Armageddon or something is on the way?
2. 3/27/08
  
  Hippychikky
  
  Cloning body parts ey.....
  
  i was gonna go there, but i have self control, its the new me the new avatar and I am well behaved. Where is angie is she witnessing this, I am posting kitty pics for crying out loud.
3. 3/27/08
  
  ekim941
  
  You don't see a problem in creating a man made religious figure? Isn't that a false prophet? So, you would have a genetic Jesus with an entirely different upbringing. Sounds like a "Lemmings to the sea" scenario.
4. 3/27/08
  
  Hippychikky
  
  man made religious figure=tom cruise
3/27/08

latinocool79

If Jesus were cloned than a Universal Paradox would be created and we would actually be terminated instantly. This is if Christianity is right. If not well, it would just be another day.

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1. 3/27/08
  
  ekim941
  
  I think the paradox is any cloned human would be an "Immaculate conception"
2. 3/27/08
  
  latinocool79
  
  Holy Crap you are right
3/27/08

morgantj

latinocool79 said, "Would you clone another "you" or a deceased loved one?"
Why would somebody clone a deceased loved one? So they can have two deceased loved ones?

latinocool79 said, "I think I would clone my wife but would she be the same?"
Of course she would be the same, If she wasn't the same, then she wouldn't really be a clone.

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1. 3/28/08
  
  latinocool79
  
  what I meant was not if she would be the same physically but spiritually and personality wise. Why a deceased one? Well cause some people lose loved ones and want them, them. Would I do it? I dunno but I know one part of me would want that person back so much that I would think about it.
3/27/08

daniel23

no

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3/28/08

footiam

Won't intefere with God's handiwork!

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3/28/08

Hippychikky

I am gods handiwork heheheh yeah baby

see this is once again idiot humans taking modern medicine somewhere into the twilight zone.

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3/28/08

Hippychikky

maybe i would clone my 19 year old ass and paste it on my 30 year old body.....im gonna ponder that one

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3/28/08

kdawg68

I think we need to think about population control before we start adding clones to the equation here.

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3/28/08

wehireu

Because I plan to rule the world and I need back up copies in case I get killed, I'd make sure that I have at least a dozen clones in hidden locations all over the world and one on the moon just in case.

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3/28/08

globalgirl

Neither. The mere thought of seeing "multiplicities" of others, gives me the creeps. Variety is best.

Edit:
**artificial multiplicities***
Twins, triplets, etc are another matter (I'm a twin!)

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3/28/08

silvertooth26

Anybody seen The Prestige??

There's your answer.

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3/28/08

lamenews

i'd clone jesus,
and use his magic for evil!

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