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Originally posted by Paladin2000:
This is somewhat inevitable. My guess is in another few years, the rich would be able to get people to clone their body parts for replacements.
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Thats theraputic cloning, a different matter. Cloning a replacement heart or something could save lives, with far better results than a transplant from another person.
But cloning an entire human being is a different matter. For a start, animal clones have a high proportion of defects. Unless these italians have made significant advances in technology, the same would apply to the cloned human.
Then theres the whole "we are playing God" argument that I wont get into.
And theres the ethics of creating a child that will probably be treated as a freak its entire life. Assuming that it turns out healthy enough to have a life in the first place.