A lil controversy: Cloning

[RoD]

The six year old sheep died, question is, should it have ever lived?

http://www.msnbc.com/news/872966.asp

[Govtcheez]

> should it have ever lived?

Yes.

Next!

[ammar]

> should it have ever lived?

No.

Next!

[Silvercord]

I am of the belief that knowing how things work is a good thing, whether it be with some kind of mechanical engineering, chemical engineering, genetic engineering, computer engineering, the list goes on. Therefore I don't think the idea of cloning is a bad thing, because we may ultimately be able to discover a lot about ourselves, but when you start creating life only to have it die because of ignorance (what i mean is the scientists must have missed somethin somewhere along the line)l then you are getting into some very hot water. I think the cloning process will be slowed down by these deaths, but I don't think the research will ever be stopped.

[ammar]

I also think that the research is not going to stop, and I beleive that knowing how things work is good, but that doesn't mean it's right to clone animals.

[dP munky]

>>> should it have ever lived?

No!!

we can learn from cloning? i cant think of a posative thing that could come from making a genetic copy of an organism?

...and didnt we have this descussion about a month ago

[Travis Dane]

Originally posted by RoD
The six year old sheep died, question is, should it have ever lived?

Yes. Why wouldn't it?

[RoD]

yea we did, but i thought since it died this would be good to continue, the discussion that is.

I believe in cloneing for science, i fear cloning for war and such..

[Travis Dane]

Originally posted by RoD
i fear cloning for war and such..

You've played too much "Red Alert 2 Yuri's revenge"

[RoD]

never heard of it.

[Govtcheez]

> i fear cloning for war and such..

You're afraid we're going to be overrun with babies, or what?

[Travis Dane]

By the time we're able to do cloning right we can already make
terminators so why go through the trouble?

[RoD]

>>You're afraid we're going to be overrun with babies, or what?

I feel that if they can get cloning right enough to make copies of soldjers and stuff, they will be able to increase the age process :P

[Govtcheez]

I can't believe anyone would buy into that BS. Even if that is ever possible, it certainly isn't now, and it's no reason to stop research.

edit: Maybe Dick Clark's proof that we have it in reverse, though.

[Travis Dane]

Cloning has it advatages you know? Everybody seems to only
look in the dead cloned animals direction, But what about
being able to forever cloning for example a pig? No more
food shortage! Yeaaah!