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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 557017" data-attributes="member: 7394">Erik, as always, your post amuses the heck out of me.All this talk of replacement body parts is probably the best thing that can come of it. It could be the cure for cancer. Is your liver looking more like a grapefruit because of a lifelong drinking problem? Don't despair, clone it! You'll be good for another 25 years of self abuse.Seriously, the one thing that I keep hearing is that the original cells of a cloned animal are not (for lack of a better term) the same age as a newborn's would be. This means that a 30 year old who clones themself is going to have an infant made up of cells that are already advanced 30 years. This isn't the best idea in the world. By the time the clone's age is 30, the cells will be the same as a 60 year old's. Does this mean rapid aging? Shorter lifespans? More diseases like cancer showing up in younger people? Probably. That is the reason that I'm against cloning people until the process can be studied more.As for the religious arguments that we're polaying god... us humans have been in the business of playing god for so long we don't know anything different. Nuclear technology gives us the power of the sun on earth. We revamp our landscape to suit our needs; look at what's stil happening to the rainforests. We build structures that reach the sky, dam up rivers, hunt animals to extinction, launch ourselves into space, and some even try to tell the rest of us whether or not we're fit to hang with the almighty in the hereafter. Had we never advanced civilization beyond the hunter and gatherer stage, we would spend no more than one quarter of our waking hours providing for the survival of our family/tribe, which would leave much more time for gaming <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />From my own pseudo-buddahist point of view, I find this whole debate kind of humorous.</blockquote>

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