Is it normal that i think we should legalize cloning?

Either my phone didn't post my comment...or I got deleted. BAAAALLS. I even had something fairly insightful to day.

Just curious, but did you get a comment from me, OP? I wrote one, but don't know if you received it.

Either way, here is a second helping of Anthian goodness.

Alright. I am going to school to become a genetic engineer, and even I don't think we should legalize cloning. Correct me if I am wrong, but clones are generally unhealthier than the original version for some reason.

I think having the perfect "designer child" is a waste of scientific brainpower and funding. Genetic engineering is very promising when it comes to correcting genetic defects in children, where their quality of life would have been severely compromised if the defect was expressed. But having the option to manipulate your child's physicality for shits and giggles is ridiculous. You have to be a vain SOB to do that.

Anyways! I think legalizing human clones is more trouble than it is worth. Imagine the opportunities for kidnappings, cheating, black-market and fake research centers offering to clone children (but failing and resulting in horrible defects), the class friction (cloning will obviously be costly), and jeeze. I should go do my A&P homework.

We have enough people living on Earth right now, if cloning was legal, everyone would atleast get 1 clone, that would double or tripple the world population or worse. What if your clone pretends to be you and bangs your wife? What if your clone commits a crime? It could of been any of his 10 clones who did it. He could just create a clone and send it to jail pretending that clone did it.

So we can fuck our clones...right?

God fucking damnation!!!! Are you the same guy who dreams to genetically engineer microbes to float up in Venus' atmosphere so, they can terraform the planet? You desire these things for all of the wrong reasons. It's disturbing. It goes against nature and in return will destroy it. Nothing beneficial can come from cloning/genetic engineering. In the us, Clone meat is allowed to be sold without labelling. Chances are you've already partaken of such abominations.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3293308/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bethhoffman/2013/08/26/why-genetically-modifying-food-is-a-bad-idea/
http://www.thetruthaboutgmos.com/

Ever heard of Plum Island or Dulse and the disturbing genetic experiments/kidnappings that go on over there? If you haven't already, I highly suggest that you read "A Brave New World" by Adolus Huxley and watch the film "Splice", both of which touch on these subjects.

The world is bad enough with just one Bieber. Do we really need another?

I can't any practical application of human cloning which I can get behind, but I support scientists being allowed to do it because I'm against gagging science on principle.

There's no reason to clone humans. There are enough already.
What we should be cloning is endangered species.

There are so many things wrong with this. I don't even know where to begin. You pretty much discredited yourself there at the end too.

Yeah, just what the fucking world needs; clones of Hitler, Jeffrey Dahmer, Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris, Ted Bundy (boy that would really make that Bundy loving freak on here happy), Andrew Philip Kehoe, Idi Amin Dada and Adam Lanza, just to name a very few.
Some idiot would clone Jesus if he could. No, better the dead stay dead.

It would be a disaster and a pointless one at that.

What a fucking retard, half of this doesn't even make sense.

Brave New World?
Read it.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but when it comes to cloning, I can only see endless streams of issues when it comes to morality in particular.

Cloning human organs would be beneficial

As long as we don;t allow stupid and ugly people to clone- I have no problem with it. We already clone.

The municipal corporations acting as governments do not have the authority to decree people must not clone each other.

Interesting idea but I don't really see the benefit.

It'd be far better to continue researching genetic modification so we can remove as many serious defects from our DNA as possible without having to stifle diversity through a process such as cloning.

Reproduction leads to natural evolution through cumulative adaptation, cloning creates the same person twice. What makes that clone anything but redundant? Unless you're trying to build an army, or produce slaves...

"After we're done creating near-perfect children on a everyday basis, we can go on to making space colonies and creating safe time travel."
Well you just made yourself sound pretty stupid.

Cloning does not equal better genetics. You know the banannas you buy at the store are going extinct? Because they're all clones and havent adapted to the changing world, its happened before too.

I don't think cloning is that big of a deal.

It's basically no different than having an identical twin. We can all agree that two twins are different people, who each have different likes and dislikes, and learn about the world in a different way. The same would be true for your clone.

Also, a natural offspring can often take on more physical traits of one parent rather than the other. Cloning simply guarantees that the offspring will take on ALL of the traits of one parent, rather than be a random blending of the two. Just by random chance you might naturally give birth to something that is not far off from a clone.

I can see an ethical argument to be made of you making a clone of yourself, that you raise. DEFINITELY NOT making clones of other people though.

You can get "test tube" babies or surrogate mothers for basically the same reasons you say it should be legalized. If it were a clone, you would be raising a child version of yourself. Also at their current state (animal) clones tend to have health issues.

Cloning is legal. For certain organisms.

Did they ever illegalize it?