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Dolly the sheep was the first clone (who survived). But her life was significantly shorter than a natural sheep, and I understand end of life diseases but hard
by lifeisstillgood 3y ago
Dolly the sheep was the first clone (who survived). But her life was significantly shorter than a natural sheep, and I understand end of life diseases but hard. In other words there is good argument to be made that Dolly's creation / birth was unethical.
Now multiply that about a thousand fold for this awful idea. We have no idea what the complex interplay between womb and foetus is, hormone and other signalling between mother and baby.
I know this is a tiny step, but really. Don't any of these people watch movies ? You know how bad this will get ...
- seydor 3y agoIf movies are our guide, we should all shoot ourselves right now
- gremlinsinc 3y agoif movies are our guide we don't need to, Terminators will do that for us at worst or use us as an energy source like the matrix at Best.
- lifeisstillgood 3y agoHumans are story-telling apes. Human culture is transmitted via stories and movies are a vastly powerful widespread story telling mechanism. Yes, movies are our guide. They are probably the most powerful of means to how we find the common set of rules and norms - the "culture war" is not some silly side argument, it is people looking for battle lines in defining the cultural norms of the 21C. Hollywood and Bollywood and xxxwood will play enormous parts in that. And we vote with our entry tickets