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To: Condor who wrote (128)11/29/2002 9:27:57 AM
From: zonder   of 603
 
Human cloning is not outlawed for now. So what he is doing will raise eyebrows but he cannot be charged for it.

We must remember that all great leaps in science have been met with similar concern - remember the first test-tube baby? With biotechnology as well, mistakes will be made and then the technique will be perfected. Cloning will be a part of life in the next century.

I don't think it is wise, nor is it feasible, to try to prevent a technology from being used. If you ban it in the States, it will flourish elsewhere, and you guys will be left behind in the coming era of biotech. The question is therefore not to block but to control, so as to prevent abuse.

Then will come nanotechnology and we will go through more or less the same doomsday scenarios of "Can't let it happen or our lives will be ruined!". Then that will pass and there will be some other new technology to fascinate and scare the public. Such is life.
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