Brazil poised to start cloning multiple endangered species.

[StriderX]

Well it seems that Brazil has more or less decided that they cant stop human nature and has decided that it will go the "dangerous technology with vast implications" idea.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22493-brazil-aims-to-clone-endangered-animals.html

Conservationists in Brazil are poised to try cloning eight animals that are under pressure, including jaguars and maned wolves.

Other conservation groups have welcomed the plan, but say the priority should always be to preserve species in the wild by minimising hunting and maintaining habitats.

"While cloning is a tool of last resort, it may prove valuable for some species," says Ian Harrison of the Biodiversity Assessment Unit at Conservation International in Arlington, Virginia. "Experimenting with it now, using species that are not at immediate risk of extinction, is important."

So will this be the start of a major economy in Cloning and thus huge moral implications for our perhaps near future regarding eventual human clones? Even as a progressive person, this is perhaps one area that I would never desire opened for humans, death rids us of our worst...imagine if Hitler could have cloned himself?

Now you may say imagine if Einstein could have cloned himself, what use would that have been? Honestly.

I have not seen a thread like this up, thought it would be nice.

 

[StriderX]

You don't necessarily know that the clone would turn out evil. Humans are as much a product of their life experience as their DNA. With different parents and different experiences, Hitler might have turned out OK.

Might is not good enough.

I suppose it would put to bed the argument of nature/nurture, but I really don't mind.

 

[StriderX]

I realised this, however usually if someone is quite so involved with himself/ideas whatever, they would go to tremendous lengths to get things done their way (Hitler's downfall, I know).

I suppose the original comment was slightly (more than slightly) overstating it.

One could still theoretically indoctrinate ones clone, though i imagine that may take an awfully long time, especially if you have to also educate the clone.

Another argument then, Human clones being used as test subjects, they could be classed differently and no rights given to them, thus making it a sound way to go about direct testing.

 

[StriderX]

Cloned cow meat is already in the food chain

I don't mind that, in fact I hope it rises, so that we no longer have to deal with the possibility of food shortages.

 

[StriderX]

I suppose I should also get the thread back on the Titles topic.

I wonder if we kept some of the already extinct animals DNA on ice in the past 50 years...would be nice to some of them sprout back in.

Also, could we technically grow Ivory now? Curious.