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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 1988 Views
The book, not the novel? Camilla - 18/10/2010 06:07:08 PM 923 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 877 Views
Bummer! Jacob - 18/10/2010 06:32:43 PM 939 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 880 Views
Are we talking the fact that they were clones? Chas - 18/10/2010 10:39:25 PM 1026 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 980 Views
I say that now, but that's after I was spoiled. Chas - 19/10/2010 01:29:29 PM 930 Views
I can understand that. Rebekah - 19/10/2010 01:35:41 PM 871 Views
I figured it out almost straight away. Rebekah - 19/10/2010 01:33:17 PM 925 Views
Re: What was the other book? Danae al'Thor - 03/11/2010 09:35:01 PM 1066 Views
It was called Spares. Rebekah - 03/11/2010 09:58:02 PM 1013 Views
Re: It might be YA literature. Danae al'Thor - 03/11/2010 10:00:50 PM 899 Views
I had it mentioned to me before I started reading Camilla - 02/03/2011 11:24:14 PM 1010 Views
What did you think of the characters? Legolas - 18/10/2010 06:43:22 PM 968 Views
Ruth was a bitch and other quick summations. Chas - 18/10/2010 10:34:17 PM 859 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 999 Views
Must revise that feeling now. Rebekah - 31/10/2010 02:52:25 PM 877 Views
Re: Must revise that feeling now. Jessie - 16/11/2010 03:57:59 AM 1344 Views
Ruth is Evil Camilla - 02/03/2011 11:08:47 PM 1041 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 979 Views
Love it. Rebekah - 19/10/2010 01:36:26 PM 928 Views
I liked it (with some exceptions) thebestrob - 20/10/2010 09:55:26 AM 1083 Views
I thought of The Island, too - same premise, very different approach. Legolas - 20/10/2010 04:42:48 PM 1000 Views
Re: I liked it (with some exceptions) Rebekah - 22/10/2010 11:29:36 AM 1008 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 988 Views
Did you just compare Robert Jordan's writing style favourably to Ishiguro's? Camilla - 02/03/2011 11:20:46 PM 923 Views
LOVED. Jessie - 16/11/2010 03:52:09 AM 803 Views
By all means, then... Jacob - 16/11/2010 02:44:24 PM 757 Views
Re: By all means, then... Jessie - 17/11/2010 11:23:12 PM 961 Views
Re: Gaps - 20/10/2010 02:50:28 AM 969 Views
What do you think of the idea of growing cloned humans for donations? Rebekah - 31/10/2010 02:53:25 PM 873 Views
Uncomfortable is putting it mildly. Legolas - 03/11/2010 10:12:43 PM 993 Views
Re: Uncomfortable is putting it mildly. Rebekah - 05/11/2010 07:36:04 PM 937 Views
Agreed. Camilla - 02/03/2011 11:29:50 PM 941 Views
Miss Lucy, Miss Emily and Madame. Rebekah - 31/10/2010 02:56:27 PM 906 Views
You kind of have to wonder how they sleep at night. Legolas - 03/11/2010 10:17:36 PM 1025 Views
Yeah. Rebekah - 05/11/2010 07:39:22 PM 956 Views
The issues Camilla - 02/03/2011 11:35:52 PM 942 Views
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