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a new question also arises about cloning... if one makes a perfect clone, will personality be the same? or will circumstance mold personality and such. If we cloned hitler, would he again do what he did, if his life was different? i wonder...
SCARY THOUGHT: what if someone has already made a human clone thta no one is aware of?
lord_darkside_x, check out the video "The boys from Brazil". If memory serves me correct it exactly about that.
yeah it is similarly about taht... only the guy already decided that circumstance was a molding factor and then he tried to recreate hitlers life in clones.... scary thought.... a possibly abuse for the technology eh?
Confirmed- i agree that not all technology should be banned because of potential problems, but.... i think that the decision should be made based on the specfic technology. limits should be in place. nuclear weapons are not for sale to the general public for fear of abuse, but if we don't limit or ban technology because of potential abuse, some irate driver could shoot a nuclear war head at you. it's an extreme instance, but it's to prove a point. i mean, i think that the cloning of animals for food production is a useful idea, although ethically i don't know if i like it.
acid - you could clone bill gates all you want... but i feel he won't come out the same way, unless he was put through the same social circumstances. i think that personality and such are not genetic, but social. an exact replica is near impossible
Even worse is the possibility of being cloned just for organs or whatnot.......after all, would clones have full rights as humans? Imagine--being born, and brought up knowing that you're merely the property of some corporation, to be sold off an organ at a time once you reach a certain age. If that's not depressing, I don't know what is.........
Though it would make a really great plot for a sci-fi novel..............
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Originally posted here by lord_darkside_x
Conf1rmed_K1ll.... i ahve to disagree with you on that on the fact we should use such technology.
No problem....You make valid points and as previously stated I can see your side of the argument....I hope you can see mine too.......
lord_darkside_x I saw this thing on TV by that guy who did the Human Body series. It was about twins. It had these cases where these twin men were 60 but were seperated at birth. Both never knew of the other until alot later in life. Both had the sam job in a hardware store, both had similar interests, both has wives with the same name (2 ex and 1 current all same names).
Then there was the other one about twin boys seperated at 6, one went with his Jewish fathe to live in Trinidad the other to Germany with his mother. This was in the 30's so one is a Jew and the other a Nazi. They did personality tests and stuff on them and found that they had the exact same personality traits ie. Highly Competitive, Stuborn, Perfectionist
But had different sought of morals. The Jew being very Liberal while the German was very Conservative.
Damn it's scary.
confirmed -- i see your side. technology can be a very good thing, but as i said, it can be very bad. i don't know that i like the turn the world would take when human cloning begins.
Hello all,
I personally would just like to state my opinion, so here it is. I think that anything even cloning of humans, should be used to furthur our understanding of the human body and what is around us. I strongly believe that any. . .thing, person, animal, et cetera, that can be used to furthur our technological development as a society with medicine, computers, and all else for that matter, should be used as a source and pushed to its fullest abilities. No matter what the consequences are immediately, in the end knowledge is power, and we are all weak compared to what we could know.
One quick little example would be the birth of hackers maybe. During the very early days, it was considered "wrong" and "bad" to decompile, and reverse engineer software. And at the time was thought that ONLY bad could come from it. But now look at it today, just try to imagine what the software industry would be like without encryption, open source, LINUX, et cetera.
i believe that two people who spend 9 months together in the womb are bound to have similar if not nearly identical personality triats, but in the end, we see that in the case of jew and nazi, two seperate ethics were chosen, this is my point. if morality can be altered, why can't personality. especially, with clones. twins are together in the womb, this creates an emotional bond and a unique similarity. if a clone is put in completely exclusive circumstance, i think that some similarity will be visible, but i think there will be quite a few variances because ultimately circumstances control personality.
Just one other little rem, when is technology EVER bad?