1. How do you feel about the technology advancements of cloning people and animals?
I can see many good and bad things about it, but I lean toward the benefits of cloning. I don’t believe we should just start cloning people, but the technology can be used to clone replacement organs without cloning a person. Cloning animals have one benefit as you can create a tailored animal for a specific need.

2. If this technology became readily available to all, how do you think this will affect the future of our race?
We’d be in a world of hurt. I can see so much misuse from the average Joe in cloning lost love ones to making a fantasy playmate from some celebrities DNA.

3. If your much loved pet died and cloning was available, would you elect to have your pet cloned? What about family and friends?
I refuse to clone my pet or family members and I hope I am never presented with that choice. First of all, no matter how well the cloning is, the person or pet will still be different from the original… all they would share is the same DNA. The experiences, scars, etc would not be there.

4. Would your family have your consent to be cloned? Why or why not?
If they wanted to clone me, go right ahead. But remember, the clone will not be me.

5. If you had the authority to clone any person no longer alive, who would it be any why?
I wouldn’t clone anyone. As I said before, the clone would just share some DNA with the original, the two people would still be different. I guess it goes back to the quantum theory that observing an object changes that object, or in cloning, cloning that object changes that object. The two people will be distinct and have different souls.

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