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10-21-2004, 01:50 PM

If you create a clone, it begins life as a foetus. Just like everyone else in the world. The fact that it shares someone's DNA does give it any magical powers, or make it 'freaky' in any way. Identical twins are clones. They are not always evil. There is nothing ethically or morally wrong in being a foetus. There is nothing ethically or morally wrong in growing up to be a normally functioning human being.

Now creating a clone for the sole purpose of performing surgury on it, or for some purpose other than for it to grow up, now could be considered as being wrong. But only as wrong as having a child the more traditional way for some purpose other than to love and care for it, and for it to eventually to grow into an adult.

So cloning isn't wrong at all - just as child-birth isn't wrong. It is the motives and intent that can be examined for morality or ethics, not the techniques.

10-21-2004, 01:50 PM	#6 (permalink)
zen_tom Guest	If you create a clone, it begins life as a foetus. Just like everyone else in the world. The fact that it shares someone's DNA does give it any magical powers, or make it 'freaky' in any way. Identical twins are clones. They are not always evil. There is nothing ethically or morally wrong in being a foetus. There is nothing ethically or morally wrong in growing up to be a normally functioning human being. Now creating a clone for the sole purpose of performing surgury on it, or for some purpose other than for it to grow up, now could be considered as being wrong. But only as wrong as having a child the more traditional way for some purpose other than to love and care for it, and for it to eventually to grow into an adult. So cloning isn't wrong at all - just as child-birth isn't wrong. It is the motives and intent that can be examined for morality or ethics, not the techniques.