Abominations of Nature!

[El_Machinae]

They're obviously evil. Just look at the wicked glint.
I know most people know that animal cloning is 'par for the course' these days (and didn't exist a decade ago), but it's becoming common to the point where we can provide the service commercially, which will lead to all kinds of efficiences.

Anyway, these were spawned from a natural union, but the mother was a clone. I don't know what that makes these; other than 'cats'.

World's first cloned cat has 3 healthy kittens
Copy Cat became a mother the old-fashioned way, says scientist

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16213548/

 

[Swedishguy]

If you're arguments are above 'look at the evil glitch in her eyes' I might take this more serious. Cloning is the future.

 

[soul_warrior]

cloning is bad.
not because of the act itself, but more due to the laziness of the cloners.
soon instead of breeding a proper gene pool, a clone will be repeated.
the path from there to an extinct species is very short.

it can help in the short term, but must never be allowed to be more than that - short term and very limited in useage

 

[nc-1701]

Sure, that is if I ever own a pet which is rather unlikely. Not much of an animal person here.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

Sure why not. Why does it matter who it was created.

 

[silver 2039]

Cloning can be useful in many, many instances. Absoloutley nothing wrong with cloning.

 

[Urederra]

cloning is bad.
not because of the act itself, but more due to the laziness of the cloners.
soon instead of breeding a proper gene pool, a clone will be repeated.
the path from there to an extinct species is very short.

it can help in the short term, but must never be allowed to be more than that - short term and very limited in useage

I kind of agree. The cloning fad will be substituted soon by genetically enhanced methodologies. Cloning is just a step towards that. Why do you want to pass your bad genes if you can replace them by good ones? If we can make bigger, healthier and more disease resistant corn why wouldn't do the same with people?

 

[El_Machinae]

If we can make bigger, healthier and more disease resistant corn why wouldn't do the same with people?

It has to be gradual, or I'll lose my job.

 

[Urederra]

It has to be gradual, or I'll lose my job.

Of course it going to be gradual, for once the technology is not quite ready yet. Besides, not everyone could afford it.

 

[silver 2039]

Of course it going to be gradual, for once the technology is not quite ready yet. Besides, not everyone could afford it.

Intially, however eventually the technology would become cheaper and there would be diffusion driving the prices down.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

Why is it worse if a pet is made by a lab or by another cat. Both are cats. They are just two ways of doing the same thing.

 

[Yuri2356]

Are they making progress on refreshing the aged DNA of the donor? I've always been told that clones have shorter life expectancies because they receive genes that have already been worn down a bit.

 

[Rossiya]

A cat is a cat.

 

[xseizexthexdayx]

There's enough real cats already, and they are easy enough to get, which makes this sort of stuff kina.. useless to me.

If they are able to produce a clone miniature elephant or something, then I'm interested.

 

[Masquerouge]

Yeah.
My view is that cloning is neither evil nor immoral.

 

[El_Machinae]

The 'age' of the clone was pessimisticly observed for some years; we thought that the offspring would inherit the aging of the cell-donor. It turns out that it's not all that important, in the end (though it still is a little).

I don't want to white-wash the issue; it's still something that can be improved.

Clone telomeres behave normally

 

[El_Machinae]

If they are able to produce a clone miniature elephant or something, then I'm interested.

My wife nags me on occassion to invent a house hippo.
Give it time!

http://www.cca-kids.ca/tvandme/english/video/hippo.mov

 

[blackheart]

I don't care either way.

 

[bhsup]

Anything to increase the number of cats in the world is a good thing.

 

[Yuri2356]

There's enough real cats already, and they are easy enough to get, which makes this sort of stuff kina.. useless to me.

What makes cloned cats any less 'real' that those born naturally?