generichaxor Posted:

cloning for economic purposes is a great idea

and it increases our world’s biodiversity, which is good

My idea with the cloning for testing is that it saves an animal from being removed from nature. By putting an identical animal in its place and releasing the originally back into the wild, we get a test subject, and don’t upset the populations of test subjects

eg. a rabbit that we test something on

if i get a spare rabbit, then i dont have to kill the test rabbit

if i have no spare, then i just killed a rabbit

Ever seen The Island? How about Six Days? This idea doesn’t sound nearly as appealing when you apply it to humans, and if you think laws will stop people when the technology is here then you’re out of your mind.

I don’t object to cloning, and I don’t think we can stop it, but at the end of the day cloned life isn’t any different from non-cloned life, ethically speaking.