Re: BIOETHICS: Cloning for military applications

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sun Jul 15 2001 - 07:19:29 MDT


"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> Here is an interesting paper:
> D.N.Army: the Implications of Human Cloning on Future Military Forces
> by/par Major John L. Donovan
> http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/irc/nh/nh9798/0031.html#n1
>
> I just loved this quote:
>
> "It's a horrendous crime to make a Xerox of someone. You're putting
> a human into a genetic straitjacket. For the first time, we've taken
> the principles of industrial design - quality control, predictability -
> and applied them to a human being.
> -- Jeremy Rifkin
>
> If the quote were an accurate representation of the situation, it might
> be interesting, but it isn't so, it is just sound and fury signifying
> nothing.

I'm surprised that Rifkin doesn't have class action hate crime charges
against him from the Twins of America...



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