RavennofTitan wrote:
JennockFV wrote:
I'm not convinced that two of me on the planet is a good idea. Besides, cloning all those character flaws is such a bad idea.
I'm all for cloning but more for quality foodstuffs like wine and chocolate. Find the best, clone it .. bang! Happy people
For gods sake .. no cloning Varus ..
Thought they were already cloning sheep.
I think Dolly was 1997 or so, and I haven't heard about much since then. She was a "success," I suppose. If all you want is for the clone to make it to infancy.
I have no moral qualms about cloning in general, nor organ farming (assuming you don't clone a sentient being specifically for it). My ethics coursework for philosophy always included it, and most arguments come down to the same ones used against birth control - don't play God.
There IS one other major track of reasoning against both cloning and genetic engineering, though, which argues that it would be immoral based on the inherent classism it would endorse. Basic story: The rich could afford to engineer their children, when the poor couldn't, so over time the wealthy class would produce humans with capabilities vastly above the lower class. This would turn economic class into an actual biological class.
I suppose you could use that for cloning too, in some form. But considering there's no good reason to consider a clone anything but their own human person under the law, you'd just use family laws for inheritances and such. I mean, natural clones exist - they're called "twins" - so it's not like this actually creates any new issues with the law - procedural or forensic.