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Until we start growing little parts of humans - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41580-020-0259-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41580-020-0259-3 I mean, lit

• DoreenMichele 6y ago
  I've never seen it, but I have heard that is basically the plot for the movie The Island: What happens when we get to the logical end point and it turns out you need to grow a whole person for things to work right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_(2005_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_(2005_film)
  • shadowprofile77 6y ago
    Assuming we really did develop the capacity to grow whole bodies from genetic material for custom, rejection-free transplants, i'd see no ethical problem with creating mindless bodies that are just good enough to keep all those organs usable for their intended host's needs. These would not only not be conscious human beings in any sense, they wouldn't even be the shells of possible people stolen from any family. In any case, taking ethical debates about organ growth to extremes such as these strikes me as a form of moral masturbation. We're barely at the point where we can even seriously consider developing single simple regrown organs, let alone worrying about "The Island" style dilemmas. And if we do indeed start having the capacity to commercially create genetically regrown individual body parts as stand-alone transplant treatments, the immediate human-life value of their existence would far outweigh any ambiguous worries about somehow moving to full body clones at some maybe point in the future.