How Unethical Do You Think Cloning of a Dead Dog Is?
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/wo...ce&oref=slogin


This California woman wants to clone her dead dog. I find it pathetic, and rather disturbing.

I think that's fucked.
As much as I've loved my past dogs, I would definitely not want them cloned. They wouldn't even be the same.

does she want a collection of dead dogs hanging around her house? maybe one day they'll wake up as zombies and eat her brains.

eh. live and let live.

I don't know if it's any creepier than people who have their dead pets taxidermied.

What would she do when the clone dies?

clone the clone?
it would just be exponentially imperfect/flawed versions of the same dog, like when you make a photocopy of a photocopy.

What I've read about this - for the $cuntload of money she's spending, there's only a 1 in 5 chance of the dog not dying in the petri dish.

Some people have more money than sense. Me, I've got about £1.47p's worth of each. It is British sterling though, and as such worth about twice the amount of American sense.

Morally, her doing it doesn't bother me; the moral ramifications of cloning are iffy, and the fact that it's being offered as a commercial service is concerning, but cloning isn't, to me, in itself a bad thing.

i dont really care
cloning is kinda cool but not as cool as time travel

OMG! that's so true, cause like, this one time i cloned myself because i had a lot of pressure at work and i was trying to save my marriage, and then i almost lost my wife-- to myself! overworked and overscheduled, i never had enough time for my wife and family. so when a helpful geneticist offered to "xerox" me, it seemed like the perfect solution-- until the clones began to take over my home, my job, and my bed. hilarious hijinks ensued.

fucking nuisance if you ask me...

why, foo? what disturbs you? never heard of twins?


ha ha ha ha ha exactly-- repped

It would be way cooler if she cloned her aborted fetus.

seriously, though, I don't have any ethical concerns with a lonely cow cloning her dog. she is pathetic and probably disturbing, but I have no issues with the technology of cloning. it could be useful. people keep dying of cancer, ya know.

boring. i thought you were leaving?

Oh, I was just on hiatus, smart guy.

hahaha.

cloning a dead dog, whats the point? we would just have another dead dog. then clone that one and after a few years we could renact the dawn of the dead..... but with zombie dogs, if we ever find the zombie gene that is........

Has anybody noticed the last couple of responses related to the thread are essentially "clones"?

Hehe, heh... Ah.

That is MORE creepy. Seriously, things only become unethical once humans start exploiting the living being, not when they engineer it so the living being has life.

I'm fine with it. Her therapist needs to make it clear to her that this is NOT the same dog, but if she has a thing for owning the same breed with the exact same markings, this might help.

The people who think cloning is some Huxleyian nightmare are just as misguided as those who expect it to work miracles. It'll probably be wealthy wackos in the latter category (like this woman) who initially drive the market to where we can all accept this as the normal technology it really is.