Name: Jeff K Kangas
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Question:
How close is genetic engineering to successfully cloning a
human being?
Replies:
Jeff,
I believe technically we are not too far from the possibility, but
probably the bigger issue is that of a moral nature. By this, I mean
would we consider it moral to clone people? Who should/could/would
be cloned? For what reason? Would wealthy people make 'copies' of
themselves? Would the wealthy then be able to take a greater share
of the earth's resources by either living indefinitely through cloning
or taking a larger share of the earth's resources out of the mouths of
the less privileged? These are some of what may be far-fetched questions
now, but in the next decade we may read such stories as headlines.
Naturally the time to think about these questions is before policy
is developed.
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