Use them for research too dangerous for real humans and/or complete organ and blood harvesting, and i'm fine with that. Nothing else, though.
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Implying clones wouldn't be "real humans".
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I wouldn't see them as real humans, just resources at best. Truthfully, i'm against the cloning of living beings.
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Edited by Lord Keksworth: 3/21/2013 2:29:34 AMDo you mean, if they were 'born' without a brain or consciousness? Cloning is just a form of asexual reproduction - if you kill a fully developed cloned infant, it's exactly the same as killing a regularly-bred infant.
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Nope, even if they did have those two things, I still wouldn't consider them real humans. A copy is a copy, I don't care if it was created as an infant and raised like a normal individual, just the fact it was a manufactured clone means it isn't a real human to me.
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Edited by Lord Keksworth: 3/21/2013 2:38:45 AMClones happen all the time in nature. It's not something bizarre or unnatural. Saying a clone is 'just a copy' is like saying a regular-born human being is 'just a bunch of cells'.
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It's not unnatural in other species where asexual reproduction is a natural occurrence, I agree with that point, but I believe it isn't something natural for us. That in mind, I don't think it's something we should be messing with. I'm fine with cloning on a small scale, like cloning organs for transplants and things of that nature, but I just strongly dislike the idea of cloning living beings.