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Old 05-06-2010, 04:49 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by genuinegirly View Post
I see it as a major threat to the diversity of the already-weak human genepool.
What about a scenario where a person who can't/didn't reproduce is cloned to preserve their genetic material so that it isn't lost from the gene pool? Or bringing back an allele that has been lost and that has potential to be useful?

I'm not comfortable with assertions that cloning for reproduction is always necessarily a bad thing; it's reminiscent of the medieval European prohibition on dissecting human cadavers.
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