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So who else has seen "The 6th Day" (2000)?
Topic Started: May 14 2009, 12:16 PM (293 Views)
Yorick
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Great, underrated Schwartzenegger film eh? It had a lot of great ideas.

Like for one, could cloning technology ever reach the point where it becomes a commercial industry and you could actually send have a dead pet cloned?

I also agreed with the critics in the film who couldn't stand the religious fundamentalists protesting against the cloning or fish and livestock not considering all the starving people. (Also, there's the issue of endangered species.)

But the question of cloning humans is a very murky one. At first, I was completely against cloning an entire human for... whatever reasons. Bring back relatives you missed, creating an army, etc. Cloning organs was my limit but what about the youngest of babies? It's one thing to clone and adult or even a child who's experienced so much of life already but what about an infant who just died from SIDS? What would it hurt to clone an infant for a distraught child? Who would know?

It really makes you think...

Note: If you guys think this thread is redundant, you can combine it with that other one.
Edited by Yorick, May 14 2009, 06:16 PM.
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Clone army? That is a efficient way to build up an army, taking 16 year at least until you have a force worthy of forlorn hope duties.

Besides what about clones makes them having a army more likely? They are all different people.

As for cloning babies, unless the parent/s can't have another baby it is not something good to do. You can't try to replace people.
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(I haven't seen the film)

I never understood trying to clone pets or people in science fiction. At the end of the day, as lamna said, they're different people, different animals.

They're not going to have the same upbringing and will end up having different personalities, no matter how much you try to imitate the original's upbringing.
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