Barbara writes:
> I think if a
> person wanted to "get away with" cloning humans, they'd want to alter the
> genetic makeup to the extent of giving the creature a hideous appearance,
> a face and form that not even a mother could love. A gargoyle.
I agree with much of Barbara's message about the importance of appearance
in our instinctive judge of humanness. However I don't think that this
last suggestion (probably facetious) would work or be appropriate.
No one would condone intentionally creating an intelligent being who
looked hideous. I am sure that those who debate these issues would agree
unanimously that creating horribly disfigured human clones would be worse,
not better, than straightforward cloning.
Hal
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