[dabellinator]

I need everyone's opinion and views to weather cloning should be banned for my english project... so what do people think??

[asterisk_man]

I think that at least cloning someone else's answer into your english project should be banned (and probably is)

[TheSavage]

Well its really nice out today so yes I think we should clone this weather. -- Savage [had to post it, could not help myself]

[dabellinator]

i think that at least cloning someone else's answer into your english project should be banned (and probably is)

It's called qouting, and it isn't as long as I state my source... now be serious peoples

[shygrneyzs]

You are in an English class and cannot spell quoting and whether. You need more help than a paper on whether cloning should be banned.

For the record - what kind of cloning - animal, cell, human, plant?

[TheSavage]

We are serious -- you have not posted a thing showing you have tried to make a effort -- so why should we?

[dabellinator]

Leave my spelling out of this, I know it's crap, you don't need to tell me that. Now, I'm interested to know your opinion on the cloning of mammals... (Animals as well as humans)

Now, my effort has been in the actual writing of the argument. I'm saying that it should be banned, but need to have the opinion of others to include in the piece...

[shygrneyzs]

Are you searching for the moral opinion based on religion or a scientific viewpoint?

[dabellinator]

Both

[shygrneyzs]

The moral standpoint would be that cloning is not acceptable. Reproduction in nature exists due the design of God. To play God, by cloning, is unethical.

Now from a scientific point of view - there is value in cloning. For example, stem cells and stem cell research.

But when man starts cloning animals, where does the law of natural selection fit in? Survival of the fittest, in species? When cloning humans - who gets to decide the traits and genetic codes to be reproduced? Who gets to play God?

[dabellinator]

But what do "YOU" think??

[shygrneyzs]

Chuckles. I stand on the grounds that cloning is against the laws of God and nature. Once cloning starts, where does it end? Who decides when and where it ends? Who makes the decisions on whether cloning an individual is appropriate or not? To me, it is all left up to people who have too much control and not enough knowledge of consequences.

[phillysteakandcheese]

I have no problems with cloning cells for research purposes. I have no problems cloning body parts and organs for medical transplants. I have no problems with genetically modifying foods or animals that can help solve the world's hunger problems. To me, these are "legitimate" applications of biololgy and genetic science that can help man-kind.

I do have a problem with cloning entire human beings. There is no need (right now) for humans to create fully grown clones of themselves. The knowledge to allow people to have children if they cannot do so naturally has been used for years (here I'm talking about artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization). Growing a full-sized human man or woman is wrong because it side-steps the natural life processes to becoming an individual.

[shygrneyzs]

I can see some of the cloning, say for stem cell research and treatment. Cloning foods - if you can make them safer than what we get now in the markets. Not everyone has the space or ability to have their own gardens. Or cloning a breed of aniamsl that has a natural defesne against a disease. But that would be my absolulte line.

[Squiffy]

I think for the right reasons it is a good thing, what could be better than cloning organs so there would be parts that are guaranteed not to be rejected? And always there! It would be marvellous. Cloning entire people, well to me that is just senseless.