>Steve quoted:
>
>"The Scottish company that created Dolly the Sheep, the
>world's first cloned sheep, is close to producing the world's
>first cloned pig, a breakthrough that moves scientists a step
>closer to making an exact genetic copy of a human being…..
>The ability to clone a pig, which is much more complicated
>than a sheep for reasons that are not fully understood, also
>takes scientists a step nearer to cloning a human. One
>scientist commented: "Theoretically, we are closer to
>cloning a person, but the bigger the animal the harder they
>are to clone. We are still a very long way from cloning a
>whole person."
Mike Responded:
>Who among you would want to be a clone? Who among you would
>want to grow up as a clone?
I think none. However, you can't speak for another person. I have read
(somewhere) that this human cloning thing has two main pushes. 1. from
people who have lost children, especially infants or small children. It's a
way to have that exact child back from the grave. 2. from people who need
organs. if you could clone just a *heart* or a *liver* ONLY(!) from your
own cells it would be most useful.
As for cloning a whole person, I agree, it's dicy ethically and in a world
with 6 billion people, who needs it? If Einstein was 1 in a million there
are 10,000 Chinese just as smart as he was.
Susan
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing
of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of
this one.
--Albert Camus
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