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[–] Thissandwich 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

I don't remember where I heard this. I can't say that it's true, but rh negative tissue allegedly can't be cloned.

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[–] Sosacms 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

I have always felt my warehouse jobs would have been far more successful if I could clone myself... But then again that would have only doomed more if me to die the slow death of a dead end job.

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[–] pyres 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

A better question is the status of the clones. Are they people, or belongings?

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[–] jew-s-a [S] 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

It would basically be the same thing as it is right now but it would take smarter people to clone something.

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[–] Jimmycog ago 

Doesn't matter what we think, if money is involved it will be cloned.

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[–] xenoPsychologist ago 

i dont see why not. we should be reaching for the limits of physical possibilities.

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[–] greycloud ago 

yes at birth with the consent of both parents to deliberately create identical twins or triplets (this would do wonders for scientific studies if twins were more common). yes in the case of cloned donated eggs used for surrogate pregnancies in order to reduce the cost of egg harvesting, especially if they can be frozen and sold (would be nice if it was easy to purchase good genetics in eggs for reasonable prices that lower classes could afford). no for any other type of human cloning.

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[–] the_sharpest_knife ago 

Yeah. Why the fuck not? I could live forever.

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[–] JohnPaulJones 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago  (edited ago)

Setting aside the pizzagate issues, no I don't. I don't think it's fundamentally ethical. The problem is why bother cloning unless you are going to use those clones for something that would not be ethical/legal to do to a normal person; slave labor, organ harvesting, behavioral research or some other thing that we can't imagine yet. I don't mind it within a limited scientific framework (basically can we do it). I don't see a reason why this needs to be pursued on a broad scale and how that could possibly lead to inherently ethical action.

As an aside I have zero issues with tissue cloning and generally think this is where we should be focusing our efforts (basically growing organs for transplant).

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