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You know, I came in half way through that ep, and I until I saw the first half, I thought the OTHER was the original.
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That was just a tad too much info, Turnip-breath
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Don't be ashamed, Jeff. It's perfectly normal to get a bit drowsy after unit discharge, don't worry about it. *slaps arm on shoulder*
*sniff sniff* Ah, you noticed my new recipe? Sheep's brains and turnip pat�, all squeezed up inside a toothpaste tube. For quick refreshment und energy. *LeytonSpeak* Calms the nads...
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I wonder. Can they transplant a human mind into a donkeys body? Honestly, it'd be real funny to debate with someone who could only bray about the constitution.
Think on it.
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Daryus: Yeah, but it rather takes the fun out of calling someone a jackass, when they are... :-)
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I don't think that there's anything morally wrong with cloning, the clone is just a person that happens to genetically identical to another person. Because they'll have different experiences from the moment they're born and be completely different to the clone mentally, I don't think it's a big issue. In most respects it is no more unethical than in vitro or any other method of conception where outside intervention is used.
However, I think it's not really necessary, I mean, there are enough (too many, rather) people brought into the world through ordinary methods.
As for re-sequencing the genome, I think it's a good idea, if they can do it properly. We've evolved through blind evolution, a very slow process. At some stage (and I don't think we've quite reached this stage yet) we will be able to alter our evolutionary path without depending on such a crude mechanism as natural selection. The possibilities are endless, I recommend anyone that's interested should read some of Iain M. Banks' ideas in his Culture series. In theory we should be able to eradicate all genetic defects, and increase our resistance to non-genetic disorders, as well as more frivolous stuff like improving orgasms.
However, the difficulties involved here shouldn't be underestimated. Any change made will most probably have knock-on effects in other systems as the whole thing hangs on creating enzymes, which could interfere in the vastly complex systems that already exist in "human-basic" cells. I think it will be quite a while before we have enough knowledge of, and experience with, our genome to start making alterations to it.
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