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To: epicure who wrote (247)	2/22/2001 10:05:07 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51718

Exactly! But consider who is getting cloned?! My IQ is 165 (Hell <ggg>, I was forced to confess :)) But you and I would shortly become ugly and stupid...maybe...

To: epicure who wrote (247)	2/23/2001 5:21:31 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51718

"Of course clones will have to be treated exactly as other people- for it to work out well. Because they are just like regular babies, and will be just like regular people- except they will share the DNA of another person. So they will be twins separated in time." I agree with you that if they could be treated exactly as other people then there is really no dilema here. It seems a little egotistacle of the donor but there is plenty of that already. They don't have much of a chance to be treated like regular babies, however. It is not something you can force or legislate. If an adult is cloning himself or herself then the baby never had regular parents. The statistics on children growing up without regular parents has revealed that it brings with it a higher than normal rate of incidental problems.