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Re: United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning
I found it facinating to read through the list of votes for, against, abstaining and absent. Like it was mentioned before, the countries that voted for it tend to have higher technological capabilities as well as greater measures towards ensuring human rights, and greater civil liberties. That is it would seem that generally the countries that I might label as "enlightened" were against the resolution, and generally the countries that I might label as "oppressive" were for the resolution.
Makes me want to live in Canada more.
Personally I wouldn't care if I was cloned. There is no greater danger to me or my liberties or even "dignity" with a younger twin of myself walking about. It should be noted that at current we are incapable of geneticially identical cloning our manipulations are not that fine.
Like identical twins, my clone would have a slightly different genetic code and would have a seperate, unique set of finger prints. Despite resembling myself greatly.
I would have to say that should my voice have been present I would have voted against the resolution myself. I must say I am all for genetic tampering for beneficial (constructive) reasons. As weapon research or similar, not so.
I wish the world would just get over being afraid of their own shadows. Genetic engineering is the new frontier of exploring what it means to be a living being. Some day we will shape ourselves according to our needs, rather than be shaped according to our predications.
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