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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
I must admit that I'm pretty out of touch on this whole issue. What is the deal with the human cloning worries? I don't really get that part.
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The concerns about human cloning are varied. Would they be entitled to the same human rights as we do? What about eugenics... selecting the traits you want, from hair and eye colour to resistance to disease to intelligence to physical performance? What about family relationships... what if parents choose to clone younger copies of themselves as their children (and then the children grow up and become attracted to each other or their parents)? There are also concerns about the health of human clones... mammalian clones have proven to die prematurely as compared with wild types.
Just a few ethical questions to mull over as regards human cloning. My personal take is that it is going to happen eventually somewhere in the world, whether legally or otherwise (imagine that the atomic bomb was developed during peacetime and everyone agreed not to use it, even for testing... you would have to be pretty daft to think no one would test it at some point). So it is just a matter of figuring out some sort of internationally-recognised regulations and how they can be enforced. It is going to happen sooner or later, so we had better be ready for it.