Should human cloning be legalized

[The_Big_K]

Most of us have debated on this topic with our friends. Now let's see what engineers from all over the world have to say about this topic!

[ash]

Nope, it should not be legalized. It has quite a number of ethical implications. Perhaps "organ" cloning would make better sense for the sake of medical treatments.

I might draw fire by saying this, but quite a number of scientists have the "could we?" mindset, instead of "should we?". They leave the latter for engineers to deal with

[The_Big_K]

"Curiosity" is the mother of all inventions - Big K

Right said Ash, I vote for organ cloning. That would probably solve lot of organ transplant related problems.

For the debate's sake, don't you think we're shielding ourselves from some fantastic discoveries out there by not opting for human cloning?

ps: I'd certainly not like to have another Big K in the world .

[ash]

Ah.. human experimental testing? target practice by the military? I could think of more morbid things than good things

[sauravgoswami]

Human cloning can be answers to many death-threathing deasese and ans to many cures,human cloning shd be done but in restricted form(i doubt if it possible),else population will surge inno time

[Differential]

I strongly oject this act due to following reasons !

-- Increase in World's population
-- Use of human clones as warrior (any many other objectionable purposes)
-- Ownership and hence dictatorship on clones
-- What do you do with defective clones ? Defect could be physical, emotional or anything !
-- We say we haven't discovered less than 1% of human body and trying to replicate it !

I would say, producing living beings is nature's job, let it only do the job !

--Differential

[The_Big_K]

Originally Posted by Differential

-- We say we haven't discovered less than 1% of human body and trying to replicate it !

Well, in my opinion, we want to replicate human body because we know we can - even with that 1% of knowledge!

Its similar to "We climb the mountains because they are there!".


You've a very good points there -

-- Ownership and hence dictatorship on clones
-- What do you do with defective clones ? Defect could be physical, emotional or anything !

Needs a serious thought!

[mayurpathak]

On one side we are trying to build a bicentennial man, on the other we are promoting human cloning. I don't vote for either.

I know its like climbing the mountains because they are there. But what for? Its like creating another Citibank, which is fraud.

[ash]

I'm sure there are some who have vested interests in human cloning. There are many horrible but viable uses for clones. Differential mentioned "cloned warriors". Also, human clones can basically be a "simulation" of the real human. You don't have to make them 100% perfect. Give them all their vital organs, make them breathe, blink, etc. Just make sure they are "obedient" by altering some genes, and not reject any experimentation acting on them, etc.

I doubt research and investment into such possibilities are fully made public to be scrutinized, unfortunately. You'd think the military would declassify their most powerful weapons? We could only speculate and be "denied" by officials.

So, how would you stop human cloning? Will making it illegal effective enough?

[sauravgoswami]

I dont think so,secretly research on human cloning is still goin on,only way to stop is to find an alternative way,all-in-all human cloning aint helping humans much

[ash]

Originally Posted by sauravgoswami

I dont think so,secretly research on human cloning is still goin on,only way to stop is to find an alternative way,all-in-all human cloning aint helping humans much

You are right! Finding alternatives is the way to go.

Can you suggest some ways? Computer simulations and modeling have certainly made their impact. Of course, we still haven't reached the point in which they can perfectly simulate human behavior.. yet anyway. I wonder if they'd need to enhance the AI to match the human brain.. or just rely on number crunching techniques to hypothesize results.

[sauravgoswami]

AI is surely one answer,and human longivity will be limited too,we can also look at nanotechnology.

[just2rock]

Cloning will be possible soon by 2050,as a separate Workshop will be formed by medical researchers for organ cloning(Tissue,heart etc) for medical benefits.But I strongly disagree if someone start cloning on DNA etc.that will start various problems immediately with its discovery in terms of Security & Safety of human privacy.

[sauravgoswami]

Exactly mate!!!but everything has its pros n cons,its upto you in what you focus on.e.g. Nuclear Energy