Originally posted by Anthony:
As always, I will disagree with 80sU2isBest when it comes to the concept of religion, but not without respect.
I do agree with Melon's notion that clones won't necessarily lack souls. I happen to believe that every living creature has a 'soul' of some sort, for it is alive. Yes yes, I know it doesn't do much for your imagination if you're one of those people who believe that our spirits soar to the sky and meet St. Peter at the gate, just imagine - the souls of pigs and dogs running havok (Heaven must be one stinky place) but they were all created by It (I will not call God 'Him') and eventually go back to It (As you can see, I don't believe in Heaven).
As for cloning, I have always been terrified of it. Not because clones are souless zombies that roam the Earth like Frankestien, but the concept of human arrogance is so overwhelming it frightens me. Films like JURASSIC PARK, WESTWORLD and other Man-Acting-Like-God films are always there to show humanity how arrogant they have become. I have always been against cloning, not for moral reasons, but for reasons of logic. Life will not be contained, or manipulated for that matter.
However, there is a side of me that thinks of the benefits. Apparently they want this to happen to find a cure for cancer, which is certainly a very noble cause; but for every noble cause, humanity finds some other corruptive alternative.
If you ask me, these clones would be exactly like us (yes, soul inclusive) and would have equal rights as us, what kind of creatures would we be if we propagated such beings for our own personal gain? It would be like considering them as a sub-species, and for that, you needn't search further than a convicted rapist.
As for clones, I find that area something that fills me with too many questions. I am far too ignorant to have an opinion on it, I only have questions of the unknown, and a fear that Humanity will prove in the future just how cold-blooded it can be in its arrogance from time to time.
Ant.