From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2001 - 00:17:35 MST
Brian D Williams wrote:
>
> No, But a clone is an individual, and therefore has rights
> independant of the "wishs" of the person who created it.
>
Yes. Unless the clone has been especially made so it has no working
higher brain for instance, as an organ replacement bank.
> As previously stated I have no problem with the use of cloning
> technology to create new body parts or organs.
>
> However cloning a whole individual is not merely making a copy of
> oneself but the creation of an entirely new individual who merely
> has most of the genetic material of the original. A clone of an
> individual is a seperate individual, not merely a copy.
>
I agree.
>
> As I stated, a clone of an individual is a new individual, not
> merely a copy of the original. All individuals have independant
> rights.
>
Yes.
> >Who would decide who should be cloned or not? Why not simply let
> >the market decide?
>
> There is a great deal more to life and society than the market.
> This is not simply an economic question.
>
So who/what is it a question for? If it is not a question for
individual consciences then what group or state is to decide it and on
what basis? The market, in the sense I mean, is not just economics. It
is the gestalt of individual free decision making.
- samantha
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