human cloning

[miriam_e]

You know, I can't figure out what the big deal is about human cloning. People get their knickers in such a knot about it, but every identical twin on the planet is a clone. It is not like it is unnatural.

"But," those shiny-eyed, anti-cloning fanatics rush to tell me (like it matters) "there will be awful hitler-like people who clone themselves."

Really? I wonder. And some feeble law is going to stop some uber-wealthy nutcase? Like it has stopped so many other things, yeah?

"But," they breathlessly press on, "it would be a travesty of human rights to have these clones raised to be..."

...to be wealthy, powerful people? Oh the poor dears. My heart bleeds for them.
Why the hell are people worried about cloning when there are children starving all over the world?
Are people fucking nuts or something?!?!

Comments

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

The answer to those questions is the same as it is so many other times: "Cos God told me so."
It's not possible to have a thorough, logical discussion with an irrational person.

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

Yes, topped with "I must make sure other people live their lives the way I say" and with a side-serving of "It is different so it must be unnatural and wrong!" The fact that it is quite natural doesn't seem to affect their pronouncements of course, just as homosexuality has been shown to be common in every intelligent species, yet it is still somehow "unnatural and wrong".

Humans can be wonderful, but can be so frustratingly insane too!