just because you can, doesn't mean you always should

[threeplusfire]

The story about Clonaid and the claim of the first clone birth are all over the wires this morning. Didn't we all read enough science fiction stories to know that cloning never ends in happiness? I read "Nine Lives" again yesterday, and it is still a chilling thought.

It's a strange day when I can't even retreat into my sci-fi collection for respite from the world. Back to the wizards I suppose. Even if they do keep me up til odd hours before dawn, whispering.

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Not of this world

[dungeongoblin.livejournal.com]

When did people become advance enough to try
to copy creation? Was I asleep or something?
The truly creepy part is that the people who
supposely funded this project believed that
humans were created by extraterrestials.

[doctorno.livejournal.com]

As with all scientific advances (and cloning is an advance, believe me), the evil is found not in the cloning, but rather in how it is used by us. Eventually, cloning will save so many lives we won't know how we went on without it. But there will be, of course, serious new consequences that will have the moralists' panties in a bunch.

The door is open; I say bring on the clones.

Maybe it's not all bad

[terminusvox.livejournal.com]

Didn't we all read enough science fiction stories to know that cloning never ends in happiness?

It may not be your bag but Robert Heinlein forsaw great medical advances through cloning in part. See The Cat Who Could Walk Through Walls, Number of the Beast and others in the Lazarus Long series.

[jait.livejournal.com]

I don't carry any religious arguments against cloning. But overall.... I'm just saddened by this.

It's so much like the military throwing food overboard before getting into port where they'll restock. These people couldn't adopt?

For the people's sake, I hope the child grows up healthy and hearty.

For the rest of the world's sake, I hope there's a lot of problems.

I can't reconcile those two hopes.

"Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang"

[keith418.livejournal.com]

Is my favorite clone novel - it's by Kate Wilhelm.

It's a strange day when I can't even retreat into my sci-fi collection for respite from the world.

Sometimes I wonder if the bad things in the world are getting a boost because people are trying to retreat into sci-fi rather than trying to change the way the world is going...