Deja vu (March 11, 1997)

With all this talk about cloning, I thought I'd just put my two (no pun intended) cents in. And as opposed as I am to Scotsmen doing ANYTHING odd with sheep, I realy belive this to be an important medical advance.

I'm just not sure why.

Ok, well alot of people I have talked to have moral objections to cloning. I sort of understand this. Well, really I don't. I myself have moral objections to certian things that could be done to the clones (such as cuttin' them up and usin' them for parts), but not to the cloning itself. As far as I'm concerned, if the cloned animal is going to be allowed to live just as any other member of it's species, then I have no problem with it.

It's just like artifical identical twins. One DNA pattern splits into two organisms. Mother Nature's been cloning for years. Besides identical twins you also have animals like paramecium who split and become two animals with one genetic pattern, and earthworms who can get cut in half and grow into two (or more, depending on how many times the sadist cuts him up) animals with the same genetic pattern.

And some say that we shouldn't screw with Mother Nature. Well, we aren't realy screwing with her, now are we? We just figured out how to do in a lab what's she's been doing since the dawn of time. Not to mention the fact that we have screwed with her far worse in the past.

Selective breeding has been going on for centuries. There is only one species of domestic dog, and all the varieties are just pure bred mutations. Mother Nature never intended chiuahas. Test tube babies! If Mother Nature had wanted you to have a baby, well then you would be able to have one. Ever think that prehaps evolution is trying to tell you something? There are plenty of babies out there that have survived Mother Nature's natural selection process of fertilization without good homes. Adopt one.

And not just in genetics. We have beaten, pillaged, ravaged and destroyed Mother Nature, insulting her at ever turn with our scientific curiosity, and we worry about messing with her now?

Mother Nature is here tonight, she's been training for the National Fighting Championship! THAT WAS HER DREAM! AND SHE MADE IT! so don't fuck with her.

So think long and hard before you condem those Scottsmen. And concentrate you concerns on what will happen to the cloned people. Will they be free citizens? Spare parts? Hitler's empire? Technology is often abused. Just ask people who have gotten shot, blown up, or involved in a hit and run accident. But that does not mean that the technology is bad. But in this world, fucking with Mother Nature, are bad people.