Cloning

[Revival]

Originally posted by gamer
I also think it would be good because if say your dog got hit by a car and died, then you could clone it and have the same dog, that would be sweet.

Not quite. When you close something like a dog, it doesn't have the same memory. Hell, the cat they cloned doesn't even has the same colors as the original, it's all different. All you would get is a close physical resemblance -- not mental. Also, the physical resemblance isn't going to be exact all the time.

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Also, cloning isn't something that we have at our disposal, it's only been done a few times, and it's nowhere near perfect. Cloning is something that has come a long way and still has a long way to go. Now, I don't see the need in cloning an animal or a human -- you only get a physical "copy", not mental, so what's the real point? I can see cloning, for instance say, a body part. Clone a heart and you can do a heart transfer, stuff like that has a purpose.

Also, there is something that I have unanswered, and that I don't know -- maybe nobody knows yet. But say if you were to clone a 40 year old adult male. Would you have to teach him how to walk, talk, eat, drive, and do everything all over again? Even if you could, would their brain capacity be one of a 40 year old man, or a newborn? Would it take him 8 years to lean all his, or 8 weeks? There's still a lot of unanswered questions about cloning, so I'm still really open to debate on my opinion.