I can’t believe this is real and legal.
S. Fla. Couple Gets First Commercially Cloned Dog
For $150,000 you too can have good ol’ spike poop on your couch (and eventually die of hip dysplasia) again!
Article mentions Bioarts International which I swear looks like a fake ARG web site. Same with their ancillary Best Friends Again products site.
Creepy.
Why should it be illegal again? Do you have anything against twins as well (other than the Olson variety)?
No of course I have no problems with twins I just believe after many hours of L4D what’s dead should stay dead. :P So you think we should allow humans to be cloned as well?
My point, which you totally missed, was that they’re as much the same dogs as identical twins are the same people. And I do think having complete control over another human’s genetics is a bit icky, but dogs are dogs. I mean, we bred dachshunds into existence, which seems to me much more cruel than making yet another golden retriever.
Assuming the technology is well understood and safe, sure why not. Cloning just makes a new person who happens to have the same DNA blueprint. Sort of like a belated identical twin.
Oh I got your point. You say cloning people are ‘icky’ but I just draw the line a little earlier then you. Now I’m not saying that it SHOULD BE AGAINS’T THE LAW but I’m just stating my sense of unnerving.
The claim/implication that this process will return a beloved animal to you is pretty low, though–playing on pet owners’ grief with a claim that is essentially false. Cloned animals often don’t even look like the animal from which they were cloned, so this is not a means to get you poor lost pet back, even in a superficial way.
Not only that, but part of the intense bond between a dog and its owners is the knowledge, on the part of the humans, that it is a very brief intersection of those lives. It makes the relationship precious, and unique. I love dogs, but I would not want to clone either of ours. Each dog has its part in your life, and you in theirs–not only can you not reproduce that, I don’t think you should. When ours pass on, we’ll adopt new ones and form a new pack. I wouldn’t want a clone of my German Shepherd, for instance–it would be creepy and in many ways sad, because I’d know it wasn’t him. With a new dog, though, I’d be starting anew.
Absolutely, for a couple of reasons; the primary one of which is a safe and genetically identical source of transplant organs and tissue. There’s no more looking for blood donors and putting them under the knife and all the costs associated; just grow your own!
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Actually, that’s a good idea.
I just realized that posting this is sort of a spoiler for the Island, but it wasn’t a good movie anyways.
My question would be who gets to decide which DNA you can use for cloning. Can a million women have a Barak Obama baby if someone got a vial of his blood or something?
Could I have my neighbor’s clone as a baby if I find their band aid on the ground in front of their trash can because they’re a doctor and I’ve always wanted to have a child smart enough to be a doctor. How about if my kids are friends with their kids and we’re moving away and my kids will miss their kids. Can my wife have their kid’s clones as babies so that my kids won’t be lonely?
What about my Grandpa? What if he was a Jehovah’s witness and thought that would be sacrilegious?
Could the people in the Hitler thread in EE have Adolph Hitler’s clone as a baby and name him Hitler and dress him in Nazi uniforms?
I mean once someone is dead how do we determine who has the right to clone someone? How do you determine who can be cloned when they are alive? Do we do it like now where if you’re a woman you can plant any DNA you want into your uterus or do we place some restrictions on it?
Abortion will look like child’s play to resolve if we get to the point where there is safe effective human cloning.
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This post was massively retarded. That is all.
Shit, I could find them an identical golden retriever for 150,000.
If it is a clone, though it may look the same, it’s unlikely that the dog would have the same personality…which is really what differentiates your dog from every other dog out there. I would love love love to have my chow/collie be reborn somehow. She is 16 1/2 and going strong, but I know I won’t have her for much longer. She’s the smartest dog I know and has likely ruined all dogs forever for me, but somehow I think that if she were cloned, she wouldn’t be the same dog I grew up with.
Just use your local pet sematary.
Everyone gets sidetracked on the topic of organ transplants when discussing human cloning, but let’s be honest: if The Island were more realistic we’d be cloning Scarlett Johansson not so that she could have an endless supply of livers but so that we (men) could have an endless supply of Scarletts. I see a future in which supermodels and actresses have to walk around in cleanroom suits to thwart hit-and-run DNA thieves. Barbers would need certified collection and disposal routines, the costs of upkeep and maintenance of an A-list model would skyrocket as security clearances for such things as manicures and facials would escalate, and eventually we’ll kill the golden goose by making models less attractive and then not being able to see them even partially naked. We’ll look back fondly at the burqa.
People have been selectively breeding dogs for more preferable DNA traits for 15,000 years now… Most people rejecting this are just Luddites doing the same ‘OMG frankenfood’ routine…
That said, the best reason not to clone your dog is the same to avoid puppymills: There’s probably a whole shelter full of dogs on doggie death row near you that won’t cost $180,000 to make.
How is the appropriate film reference for this thread not The Sixth Day? Re-pet? No?