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It really does make sense to ban human cloning, why? A side effect of aging, our DNA, actually, the DNA in every animal gets oxidized, as Iron would rust away to nothing, eventually our DNA strands will shorten until there is nothing but incomplete code, which prevents our body from effectively continuing damage control. Dolly the Sheep actually lived a shorter life than average.

Let me put these things together as simple as possible. If you need so many thousands of feet of yarn to make a blanket, but you cut the yarn in half, you are only going to be able to make a blanket half as large as normal, correct? Well, when you take a DNA sample to clone, the organism you are trying to clone has already been alive for so many years. You are taking DNA that has already begun the aging process. What you will end up with is problems, least of which is, the cloned person or animal is not going to have a normal life expectancy.

If anyone out there is able to prove me wrong, and not on technicality's either, keep in mind I am arguing this from a logical and scientific position. It can be safely assumed our current reproductive systems are the most efficient method, or else we would reproduce some other way.

And if you keep cloning, and cloning from the clones, don't you think you will end up with some "data copy loss" for lack of better words? Take a document, photocopy it, and photocopy the photocopy, and keep doing this for several times. The final copy is no where near as pure or beneficial as the original.

What practical purpose does cloning serve? So what if you can have a dozen copies of the same person... They are going to have a dozen different personalities. And cloning would cause major civil rights issues. People with certain traits would be cloned for hard labor, people with certain other traits would be cloned for their ability to do office work... Don't you see how this could lead to a new era of discrimination and slavery? Before long, clones would be discriminated against.

Maybe this seems a bit farfetched, I hope it is, but the only time something like this is lobbied for, it is because the people doing the lobbying have the most to gain. If cloning is right, then you must also agree that ethnic cleansing is likewise right as well. Cloning is just ethnic cleansing in reverse... Now there is a paradox... I think I am going to go cook my brain over this for a while... In ethnic cleansing, you round up the people who have certain traits and exterminate them... In cloning, you round up the most desireable traits to you, and try to create such beings... This stuff should be left well alone, but society will have to learn the hard way.

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