>>Eugene Leitl fowards a message from Howard Olsen:
>>Pandering to the worst reactionary authoritarian statist elements
>>of the Millenium, Clinton seeks a "commission" { an Inquisition
>>is more like it) to study human cloning.
Calling it the "Inquisition" is good memetically.
Robin Hanson adds:
>Saw the head of this commission on CSPAN yesterday. He said they
>want 90 days to study the question. They will have lots of
>religious leaders on the commission, but he said it was very hard
>to find someone in favor of human cloning, but they'd try to
>dredge up someone. If they publish an email address to send
>comments to, I hope someone posts it here.
Religious leaders on the commission? Isn't this close to a
violation of the separation of church/state? Just what we need,
bureaucrats and theocrats.......
We need to put a more positive spin on this, Steve Edwards gave me
the idea.
>Steve Edwards <SAlanEd@concentric.net>
>I have definitely ambivalent feelings about cloning humans. It's
>possible to see good coming out of it. It's easy to see real
>weirdness coming out of it (Micheal Jackson clones himself, brings
>back the Jackson Five with an all Michael band).
What if cloning could be accomplished with the DNA of those no
longer living?
Norma Jean?
JFK?
Ty Cobb and the "Babe"?
Twenty years from now the ultimate Beatles reunion?
The Disney gang could do the ultimate "Hall of Presidents."
Brian
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