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To: Houston_CPA who wrote (13542)	8/10/1998 10:53:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

*OT*Thanks Houston, she is being treated by oncologists who several months ago located the nearest thing to a suitable donor, but not good enough. NZ participates in international donor lists and I guess the doctors have investigated that donor program. It would be great if women could choose to have as a baby a clone of somebody instead of the random DNA lottery method they are stuck with at present. With 12 clones of each person, there wouldn't be an impossible search for tissue compatibility. Some people seem to find this an abhorrent idea. They are even making it illegal. I suppose the idea is to protect people against scientific blunders, while leaving them exposed to the blinder blunders of 'natural' reproduction. The concept of nature as having our interests at heart seems to me perverse - the realm of humans has been to control and thwart the destruction that nature imposes on us. Here is another opportunity to thwart nature. Even the technology-denying Amish use carts with wheels and those who would dispute the idea are more like Theodore Karynski [sp?], the Unabomber, who denied the concept of human technological control, yet used increasingly sophisticated pipe bombs, his way of making technology illegal. Lots of people used to sneer at cellphones, but they are using them increasingly. Soon they will assert cellphones are a human right. An entitlement for the greater good. Personally, I think it would be fun to have 11 identical twins. I've never been to an identical twin convention, but I imagine they are a happy rather than sad occasion and twins usually seem to be good buddies. Of course, as clones brought up in different families, there would not be the social closeness or shared experiences the natural clones have, but I bet there would be some feeling of friendship. Not such a bad thing. I wonder if the cdma2000 cyberencrypted money transfer systems at EFTPOS places using iris identification would be bamboozled. I suspect irises in identical twins are unique. Anyone know for sure? I wonder if Q.com is developing iris software for Eudora. I hope so. Mqurice