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First impressions: Against it. The line has to be drawn somewhere. I have also lost three relatives to Alzheimner's - not pretty. I am against cloning, harvesting, genetic manipulation - all of it. There's no need. Let nature run its course.
Although for stem-cell research, I could be for it but I am not too sure exactly what it is. If it's harvesting fetuses and embryos and the like then I'm against it. Sets a bad precedent. If it's just "discarded" tissue then I'm ok with it for "regeneration" in injury recovery or what have you. Again, I'm not too clear with how it works.
But the rest: cloning, gene whatever, I'm pretty sure I'm against it (insofar as I know what it is). Because I don't like messing with "what God gave ya". It's...unnatural and quite frankly, when you start to mess with nature, bad things happen. What do you consider defects? Not being white, blue-eyed, blond hair (which is recessive by the way)? Are we going to design a master race? Let's straighten out those wacky Asian eyes, deflate those black lips (and hips), and modify Jews' noses. I thought liberals wanted diversity.
If we're not okay with genetically-modified foods, then why the hell would we be ok with genetically-modified babies? There's too many cans of worms with this one and no guaranteed benefit.
P.S. - I thought this board was hardcore right-wing (at least in general discussion and politics). Any discussion on race or tolerance is met with snickers, insults and extreme intolerance. PC is a dirty word here. The only lefties I know of are Manx, Roachboy, Host, Superbelt maybe a few others.
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