Cloning

[cmac]

What would stop people from bringing back ppl that have died? Either for study purposes, curiosity or the bereaved that have lost a loved one.

I don't think that people would clone a dead family member/friend- a clone is like a newborn- it takes just as much time to grow up as did the original. And all experiences attained by the original would be different, making a different personality. It really wouldn't be the same person at all.

 

Anyway, soon they won't need a womb to clone people, they're sure to invent a machine sooner or later that can do the same job.

 

And what do you thunk that machine is going to be? An artificial womb. Which we already have for humans- an incubator.

[Peregrine]

Take a look at reality please. No matter how simple cloning gets, it's always going to be much easier and cheaper to reproduce the traditional way. Cloning will never become a significant part of the overall birth rate. Even if it did, that's not going to change the difficulty of raising those children. Families could easily have 15 children, but almost none do. There's a good reason the average family has 1-3 kids, and it's not because of the difficulty of getting them. All cloning would do is change the source of those 1-3 children. 

 

What would stop people from bringing back ppl that have died? Either for study purposes, curiosity or the bereaved that have lost a loved one.

 

Anyway, soon they won't need a womb to clone people, they're sure to invent a machine sooner or later that can do the same job.

 

If you'd actually pay attention to my posts, you'd see that those arguments were in reply to this statement:

 

On the other hand, there are far too many humans on this world already. Cloning people would only make the overpopulation crisis even worse

 

Your arguments of "people would use cloning" might be true, but that says nothing about whether it would significantly increase the overall birth rate.