April 30, 2003 at 10:12 AM
If you clone a human successfully, do they have fewer rights? Collectively?
So it occurs to me that there's alot of impact on the more practical morals of genetic engineering that is not being considered. If you can clone a human, is the clone human? Legally, it's tricky. Morally it's trickier. Not sure what the right answer would be. In an age of biological computing a clone could be considered a self aware computer for the purposes of an ethical position against the clone being considered morally or legally human.
Some interesting thoughts there...
