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Mouse Cloned From Drop of Blood
Ogi_UnixNut writes "Scientists in Japan have succeeded in cloning a mouse from a drop of blood. From the BBC: 'Circulating blood cells collected from the tail of a donor mouse were used to produce the clone, a team at the Riken BioResource Center reports in the journal Biology of Reproduction.' The female mouse managed to live a normal lifespan and could reproduce, according to the researchers."
Have gnu, will travel.
What do you with the kid if Hitler is cloned?
Nothing. Apart from looking like the original, he'll be raised differently by different people in a different environment and so he won't be the same person. A clone is just a biological copy, not a psychological one.
Does Mr. Pitt owe child support to any of his clones? Or does Brad Pitt's father owe child support to the clones?
No and no.
It's not even valid questions, you'd need incredibly twisted logic and totally ass-backward laws to support these ideas.
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You think they can bring back my old dog, Smokey? I've still got one of his paws in my sock drawer.
He was the best. And I learned about how babies were made from watching Smokey with my family members' shins.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Cloning smart people or beautiful people or athletic people is NOT the problem. The problem is when they decide to clone stupid people as servants & laborers. when the creation of slave classes of low-intelligence clones becomes economically viable, it will become a commercial, not social activity.
Why bother? Machines make better servants and smart people can build them.
If it gets out that he's a cloned Hitler (or Boston Strangler, or Jeffrey Dahmer, or whatever) the kid could never have a normal life - he'd be in the fishbowl forever, because of a choice somebody else made. That right there makes it unethical.
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