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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 1923 Views
The book, not the novel? Camilla - 18/10/2010 06:07:08 PM 852 Views
Me type fast... me not read what I type. *NM* Jacob - 18/10/2010 06:11:19 PM 361 Views
I have just discovered that I loaned the book to someone recently as well. Rebekah - 18/10/2010 06:27:52 PM 801 Views
Bummer! Jacob - 18/10/2010 06:32:43 PM 871 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 816 Views
Are we talking the fact that they were clones? Chas - 18/10/2010 10:39:25 PM 960 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 905 Views
I say that now, but that's after I was spoiled. Chas - 19/10/2010 01:29:29 PM 841 Views
I can understand that. Rebekah - 19/10/2010 01:35:41 PM 788 Views
I figured it out almost straight away. Rebekah - 19/10/2010 01:33:17 PM 862 Views
Re: What was the other book? Danae al'Thor - 03/11/2010 09:35:01 PM 1001 Views
It was called Spares. Rebekah - 03/11/2010 09:58:02 PM 938 Views
Re: It might be YA literature. Danae al'Thor - 03/11/2010 10:00:50 PM 844 Views
I had it mentioned to me before I started reading Camilla - 02/03/2011 11:24:14 PM 914 Views
What did you think of the characters? Legolas - 18/10/2010 06:43:22 PM 880 Views
Ruth was a bitch and other quick summations. Chas - 18/10/2010 10:34:17 PM 796 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 935 Views
Must revise that feeling now. Rebekah - 31/10/2010 02:52:25 PM 812 Views
Re: Must revise that feeling now. Jessie - 16/11/2010 03:57:59 AM 1268 Views
Ruth is Evil Camilla - 02/03/2011 11:08:47 PM 959 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 367 Views
And I'm officially overusing the phrase "what did you think". *NM* Legolas - 18/10/2010 11:14:15 PM 377 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 918 Views
Love it. Rebekah - 19/10/2010 01:36:26 PM 830 Views
I liked it (with some exceptions) thebestrob - 20/10/2010 09:55:26 AM 999 Views
I thought of The Island, too - same premise, very different approach. Legolas - 20/10/2010 04:42:48 PM 921 Views
Re: I liked it (with some exceptions) Rebekah - 22/10/2010 11:29:36 AM 945 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 905 Views
Did you just compare Robert Jordan's writing style favourably to Ishiguro's? Camilla - 02/03/2011 11:20:46 PM 864 Views
LOVED. Jessie - 16/11/2010 03:52:09 AM 735 Views
By all means, then... Jacob - 16/11/2010 02:44:24 PM 698 Views
Re: By all means, then... Jessie - 17/11/2010 11:23:12 PM 890 Views
Re: Gaps - 20/10/2010 02:50:28 AM 893 Views
What do you think of the idea of growing cloned humans for donations? Rebekah - 31/10/2010 02:53:25 PM 802 Views
Uncomfortable is putting it mildly. Legolas - 03/11/2010 10:12:43 PM 931 Views
Re: Uncomfortable is putting it mildly. Rebekah - 05/11/2010 07:36:04 PM 858 Views
Agreed. Camilla - 02/03/2011 11:29:50 PM 881 Views
Miss Lucy, Miss Emily and Madame. Rebekah - 31/10/2010 02:56:27 PM 841 Views
You kind of have to wonder how they sleep at night. Legolas - 03/11/2010 10:17:36 PM 941 Views
Yeah. Rebekah - 05/11/2010 07:39:22 PM 889 Views
The issues Camilla - 02/03/2011 11:35:52 PM 869 Views
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