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"They are totally obedient, taking any order without question." Seriously, we need to loosen the regulations on cloning, including animal and, yes, human cloni

"They are totally obedient, taking any order without question." Seriously, we need to loosen the regulations on cloning, including animal and, yes, human cloning. We are holding back innovation.

rhacker 4y ago
why should we allow human cloning? at some point won't we just get evil clones coming out of russia to fight the next big war? We could even alter them just enough to call them sub-human, store them in cages and teach them to shoot machine guns.
- arthurcolle 4y ago
  Ape together strong
wszfahwbwbaha 4y ago
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- junon 4y ago
  That's not how discourse works here. Take that to reddit please.
  - wszfahwbwbaha 4y ago
    Why should someone be allowed to say truly deranged ramblings? But calling them out for it is not okay? Truly a vile culture and you should be ashamed for creating a safe space for people to spout eugenics.
    - junon 4y ago
      Eugenics was not the topic of their comment. You immediately assumed malintent. HN is a place of Curious conversation. Your comment did not reflect that. I suggest you read the HN guidelines linked at the bottom of this page.
      - wszfahwbwbaha 4y ago
CobrastanJorji 4y ago
Yes, and if we completely eliminated all other ethical restrictions on research, we'd innovate all the faster. Get those old Nazi scientists on the phone, there's slightly faster progress to be made!
- hnbad 4y ago
  The thing most people don't get about the Nazi scientists is that Nazi science was actually pretty bad because it turns out being a Nazi makes you a worse scientist. The horrific "experiments" most people think of had no scientific value and amounted to little more than torture and abuse but even "normal" science was hampered by paranoia about the supposedly corrupting influence of Jewish scientists' research. The same is true about the Wunderwaffen btw. The "wonder weapons" were more of a lame marketing gimmick than actually feasible threats. They were mostly inconveniently oversized versions of existing weapons with no strategic use. Most of them never saw the light of day but wouldn't have skewed the outcome of the war, at least not in any direction favorable to the Nazis themselves.

"They are totally obedient, taking any order without question." Seriously, we need to loosen the regulations on cloning, including animal and, yes, human cloning. We are holding back innovation.

rhacker 4y ago

why should we allow human cloning? at some point won't we just get evil clones coming out of russia to fight the next big war? We could even alter them just enough to call them sub-human, store them in cages and teach them to shoot machine guns.

arthurcolle 4y ago
Ape together strong

wszfahwbwbaha 4y ago

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junon 4y ago
That's not how discourse works here. Take that to reddit please.
- wszfahwbwbaha 4y ago
  Why should someone be allowed to say truly deranged ramblings? But calling them out for it is not okay? Truly a vile culture and you should be ashamed for creating a safe space for people to spout eugenics.
  - junon 4y ago
    Eugenics was not the topic of their comment. You immediately assumed malintent. HN is a place of Curious conversation. Your comment did not reflect that. I suggest you read the HN guidelines linked at the bottom of this page.
    - wszfahwbwbaha 4y ago

CobrastanJorji 4y ago

Yes, and if we completely eliminated all other ethical restrictions on research, we'd innovate all the faster. Get those old Nazi scientists on the phone, there's slightly faster progress to be made!

hnbad 4y ago
The thing most people don't get about the Nazi scientists is that Nazi science was actually pretty bad because it turns out being a Nazi makes you a worse scientist. The horrific "experiments" most people think of had no scientific value and amounted to little more than torture and abuse but even "normal" science was hampered by paranoia about the supposedly corrupting influence of Jewish scientists' research. The same is true about the Wunderwaffen btw. The "wonder weapons" were more of a lame marketing gimmick than actually feasible threats. They were mostly inconveniently oversized versions of existing weapons with no strategic use. Most of them never saw the light of day but wouldn't have skewed the outcome of the war, at least not in any direction favorable to the Nazis themselves.