Would you clone yourself & raise the child? Let's assume you can pay whatever the cloning & birth costs but then your income is whatever it is now.

but i might be tempted to clone myself and raise me as my child. that would be sweet.

You wouldn't be raising YOU as your child.

close enough

Close enough for what???

i would be a perfect delight to raise. plus i could perfect "myself" Lux#2 would be one sexy bitch

No, would negate the point of evolution and do more harm then good. Life needs to change.

"I would be a perfect delight to raise."
You persist in pretending the cloned child will be you. It will not. It will be a distincty different person who started with the same DNA yet NOT YOU.

No, would negate the point of evolution and do more harm then good. Life needs to change.

Evolution has a point???

No, because I would treat the child as me. I would expect certain things that I shouldn't. I wouldn't be fair to the child.

Evolution has a point???

For me it does.

You couldn't be objective because the child started with a copy of your DNA?

For me it does.

What is it?

What is it?

To better adapt us to our habitats.

WHO is attempting this???

“ Originally Posted by StrangerInAStrangeLa
I'm copying the people cloning to a new thread. ”

Why? It's really the same thing.

My dogs are part of my family. They are respected members of my family. If I didn't have children, they would be my main priority. I don't see why you think it's any different in a dog lovers eyes.

It's one step away really. Just one small step.

The only reason someone isn't cloning people is because it hasn't been done successfully yet. Because once it happens, the ethics will be blurred, but it will be done.


Not to diminish the value of pets in the least but it is not the same thing. I don't see why you don't see it.

"I would be a perfect delight to raise."
You persist in pretending the cloned child will be you. It will not. It will be a distincty different person who started with the same DNA yet NOT YOU.


:rolleyes:

Whatever that means.
The child, tho starting with the same DNA, will be different. To be the same as you, it would have to live the same life you did, eat the same things you did, experience the exact things you did, etc etc etc

don't worry, i understand.but congratulations.

It will also develope in a different womb at a different time under far different conditions.

As soon as it becomes available those who can afford it will do it...clone themselves.

We already see how some parents try to live vicariously through their children, how they delight in observing their own eyes or their cheekbones in a younger version of themselves.

For myself, no...I have very bad genes.

For myself, no...I have very bad genes.

Slightly off topic - sorry, but: in a world where genetically engineering children is the accepted form of species propagation will gingers exist?

Will gingers exist?
Why not?

i guess it's just the intuition that apparently undesirable traits will die out...

but maybe there will be a point where gingerness will be so rare as to be an exceptionally exotic rare and therefore desirable trait. then everybody will want to be a ginger.

I guess it's just the intuition that apparently undesirable traits will die out...
I certainly hope so...Ive got lots of em.

Would you clone yourself & raise the child? Let's assume you can pay whatever the cloning & birth costs but then your income is whatever it is now.

I would if I could kill the thing when it was 18-ish and transplant all those nice, fresh internal organs into me to replace my old, decrepit worn out ones in order to make my "golden years" a bit more tolerable.

Otherwise, why bother ?

Slightly off topic - sorry, but: in a world where genetically engineering children is the accepted form of species propagation will gingers exist?

i guess it's just the intuition that apparently undesirable traits will die out...
but maybe there will be a point where gingerness will be so rare as to be an exceptionally exotic rare and therefore desirable trait. then everybody will want to be a ginger.

HUH? It's extremely rare that I've known it to be undesirable.

I would if I could kill the thing when it was 18-ish and transplant all those nice, fresh internal organs into me to replace my old, decrepit worn out ones in order to make my "golden years" a bit more tolerable.
Otherwise, why bother ?

The THING???

The THING???

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/070503/scifigallery/thething_l.jpg

HUH? It's extremely that I've known it to be undesirable.
How is the which what who ?
:confused:

The THING???
What ?

It's my body, ain't it ?

I mean, like - a spare of my body...

hee hee !

hee hee !

hee hee !

That should've been extremely rare. I know I put the word rare in there. WHO took it out???

Regardless of whether you're serious : No. It's not your body. No more than any other child's body would be.

I would if I could kill the thing when it was 18-ish and transplant all those nice, fresh internal organs into me to replace my old, decrepit worn out ones in order to make my "golden years" a bit more tolerable.

Otherwise, why bother ?

haha

we would have to take a lot of precautions to ensure our clones are very healthy, we would probably have to be nice to them too, and show them love, as i hear stress/depession can be tough on the body, and then BAM!!