Mac said:
I have just seen that my comment has been selected (with plenty of others) and highlighted by the BBC on its Talking Point section.
Always make you feel like you exist.
You've just proved the anti-cloning point there.
To clone someone is to violate their existance, every human is unique, by taking their DNA you not only steal their existance from the donor, you cause alot of issue for the clone, how would the clone feel knowing they were created in a laboratory, having the genetic material harvested from someone else? how would they feel knowing they are just a copy?.
I understand your point of view Mac, your a very uber-liberal "progressive" minded individual, but, as you made my point for me, you like to feel you exist, despite your opinion humans are intelligent animals (true as it is) as a sentient being you still value your identity, how would you cope if there were 10-30 or even hundreds of copies of Mac walking about belgium?.
Im not a religious nut so this isnt based on the its playing god argument, its based on the basic rules of humanity and core ethics (which different from christian propaganga, isnt based on christian dogma, its based on the fact some things are just wrong. period).
Scientific progress just has to accept the confines and limits of universal ethics, if it doesnt humanity would soon enough degenerate into something not worthy of being called human, and i would happily see it whiped off of the face of the universe.
I dont mnid cloning research entirely, but fully grown clones must never be allowed to become common-place, or even not so common-place, otherwise we start ourselves on a slippery slope which can only lead to darker things.