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Rainbowreflect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 07:44 AM
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An ethical question.
An ethical question.

In light of recent news about human cloning, we have to ask ourselves
the
following hypothetical question: If you pushed your naked clone off the
top
of a tall building, would it be

A ) murder?
B ) suicide?
C ) merely making an obscene clone fall?
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cherryperry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 07:45 AM
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1. Yes, it would.
n/t
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 12:27 PM
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4. Congrats cherryperry!! 100 posts
A :toast: for your first milestone!!
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 07:46 AM
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2. How could they prove the clone died, and not the original?
:shrug:
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 07:47 AM
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3. C) depending on what he/she was doing at the time.
ROFL!
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 01:35 PM
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5. If you make a lot of obscene clone falls
you'll turn into a crank yanker!
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plcdude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 01:37 PM
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6. crank yanker
I don't think I have ever heard that phrase before. Does it mean what I think it means?
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 03:19 PM
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8. It's a TV show
about muppet-like creatures that make prank phone calls.

Obscene clone falls - obscene phone calls - am I the only one who saw that?
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plcdude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 03:21 PM
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9. no
I got the punchline just have not heard of the that TV show
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 05:15 PM
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12. Read my post--beat ya to it!
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 02:36 PM
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7. A
Even if the Clone is a duplicate, it's human. Being genetically identical does not mean that the clone isn't alive and experiencing a distinct life from my own, even if some aspects of that life are the same as mine.
Not suicide because the experience that I call my life continues.
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Snow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 03:33 PM
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10. Exactly.....
anyone with an identical twin sib has a clone.....
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 03:48 PM
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11. That was a long way to go...
for that joke. I gotta hand it to ya on that one. You worked hard for THAT punch line.

I didn't laugh (almost), but I did admire that you tried hard.

:7
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thermodynamic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 05:47 PM
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13. Why would I want to do that? There are better things I could do...
I can think of better things to do; such as getting a second income... The risk of being homeless would be reduced 50%!

And, heck, this would eliminate the need for social companionship! It gives a new meaning to "talking to one's self"!

And I'm not even going to mention sex, you filthy little pervert! :spank: :D
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 05:51 PM
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14. ...and if he fell on the teacher from Ferris Bueller and killed HIM...
...you'd be making an obscene clone fall across late Stein.

:D
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-03 05:54 PM
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15. Ow.
Just...ow. That hurt.
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