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Agreed. Camilla Send a noteboard - 02/03/2011 11:29:50 PM
If science ever gets around to human cloning - which does seem plausible - we will definitely run into moral problems, but I don't really see it happening that they'd be treated any different from "normal" humans. Fortunately.


I think you are more of an optimist than I am.
I imagine, if it ever got to that point, they would be kept somehow in a vegetable state, or some such. I do not think we could face raising and then killing someone who could speak for the benefit of others. And so we would make sure they did not speak.

If we did, how do you think we'd treat these people?

I'd like to think our societies are better than that... that we would emphatically reject the idea of using humans as, well, cattle really. Of course, if it did happen, one can see how people would start seeing them as second class citizens, and who knows where that would lead... scary thought.


It is, indeed.
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Book Club Discussion: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Jacob - 18/10/2010 05:51:00 PM 1987 Views
The book, not the novel? Camilla - 18/10/2010 06:07:08 PM 921 Views
Me type fast... me not read what I type. *NM* Jacob - 18/10/2010 06:11:19 PM 392 Views
I have just discovered that I loaned the book to someone recently as well. Rebekah - 18/10/2010 06:27:52 PM 876 Views
Bummer! Jacob - 18/10/2010 06:32:43 PM 938 Views
Might as well start with this - what did you think of Ishiguro's subtle treatment of the key issue? Legolas - 18/10/2010 06:34:58 PM 877 Views
Are we talking the fact that they were clones? Chas - 18/10/2010 10:39:25 PM 1023 Views
I may not be all that good in figuring such things out, but it wasn't so evident to me at all. Legolas - 18/10/2010 11:06:00 PM 978 Views
I say that now, but that's after I was spoiled. Chas - 19/10/2010 01:29:29 PM 928 Views
I can understand that. Rebekah - 19/10/2010 01:35:41 PM 868 Views
I figured it out almost straight away. Rebekah - 19/10/2010 01:33:17 PM 923 Views
Re: What was the other book? Danae al'Thor - 03/11/2010 09:35:01 PM 1064 Views
It was called Spares. Rebekah - 03/11/2010 09:58:02 PM 1011 Views
Re: It might be YA literature. Danae al'Thor - 03/11/2010 10:00:50 PM 897 Views
I had it mentioned to me before I started reading Camilla - 02/03/2011 11:24:14 PM 1009 Views
What did you think of the characters? Legolas - 18/10/2010 06:43:22 PM 966 Views
Ruth was a bitch and other quick summations. Chas - 18/10/2010 10:34:17 PM 857 Views
I find it difficult to sympathise with these characters and I wonder whether that's deliberate. Rebekah - 26/10/2010 03:56:34 PM 997 Views
Must revise that feeling now. Rebekah - 31/10/2010 02:52:25 PM 876 Views
Re: Must revise that feeling now. Jessie - 16/11/2010 03:57:59 AM 1343 Views
Ruth is Evil Camilla - 02/03/2011 11:08:47 PM 1040 Views
Since Chas is making me wonder... What did you think of the book? Like it, love it, hate it? *NM* Legolas - 18/10/2010 11:13:55 PM 398 Views
And I'm officially overusing the phrase "what did you think". *NM* Legolas - 18/10/2010 11:14:15 PM 402 Views
Crap. I hope I didn't come across as too negative, because I loved the book. Chas - 19/10/2010 01:33:57 PM 977 Views
Love it. Rebekah - 19/10/2010 01:36:26 PM 926 Views
I liked it (with some exceptions) thebestrob - 20/10/2010 09:55:26 AM 1081 Views
I thought of The Island, too - same premise, very different approach. Legolas - 20/10/2010 04:42:48 PM 998 Views
Re: I liked it (with some exceptions) Rebekah - 22/10/2010 11:29:36 AM 1005 Views
Right. A better answer, now that I've got the book and have refreshed my memory. Rebekah - 26/10/2010 03:53:58 PM 986 Views
Did you just compare Robert Jordan's writing style favourably to Ishiguro's? Camilla - 02/03/2011 11:20:46 PM 922 Views
LOVED. Jessie - 16/11/2010 03:52:09 AM 801 Views
By all means, then... Jacob - 16/11/2010 02:44:24 PM 755 Views
Re: By all means, then... Jessie - 17/11/2010 11:23:12 PM 960 Views
Re: Gaps - 20/10/2010 02:50:28 AM 967 Views
What do you think of the idea of growing cloned humans for donations? Rebekah - 31/10/2010 02:53:25 PM 871 Views
Uncomfortable is putting it mildly. Legolas - 03/11/2010 10:12:43 PM 990 Views
Re: Uncomfortable is putting it mildly. Rebekah - 05/11/2010 07:36:04 PM 935 Views
Agreed. Camilla - 02/03/2011 11:29:50 PM 939 Views
Miss Lucy, Miss Emily and Madame. Rebekah - 31/10/2010 02:56:27 PM 904 Views
You kind of have to wonder how they sleep at night. Legolas - 03/11/2010 10:17:36 PM 1024 Views
Yeah. Rebekah - 05/11/2010 07:39:22 PM 954 Views
The issues Camilla - 02/03/2011 11:35:52 PM 940 Views
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