[extropy-chat] Copycat Copycat

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Olga Bourlin <fauxever at sprynet.com> wrote:
> >
> > < "It's morally problematic and a little reprehensible," said David
> Magnus,
> > co-director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Stanford. "For
> $50,000,
> > she could have provided homes for a lot of strays."
> 
> I am an unapologetic speciesist.   $50,000 donated to science or
> something progressive would have been OK with me. $50,000 to replace
> Snookums ("dead is dead") with another cat that looks-just-like
> Snookums is obscene IMO.

That $50k is helping advance the science to the point where reliable
human cloning will be possible. Most of that cost is legal and R&D
overhead for advancing the legality, affordability, and reliability of
cloning in our society. I want to see a lot more pet cloning going on.

Firstly, people will learn through exposure to pet cloning that cloning
doesn't produce a carbon copy of the previous individual. THe real
public fear with cloning is the "Body Snatchers" psychosis, of being
replaced by a replicant. Real cloning doesn't work that way, a clone is
nothing more than a twin sibling, and people need to learn that truth.
Pet cloning is a great entree to teach that lesson to society, as pet
owners come to understand that their pet clone is not the same as their
original pet.

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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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