A Citizens Line

My career has been one as a research scientist. My education lends itself to that vocation, and my mind is very much stimulated by science, practical study and application as well as theoretical. But some areas of "exploration into things" step over the lines of "going where no man has gone before". Some places where man CAN go may be places where it is better that he does NOT go.

The extremely controversial discipline of cloning is, of course, intriguing, and lends itself to intense questions, and I have these observations. For instance, I wonder if clones (animals) will ever have the longevity of originals? Will they ever be able to reproduce?

What would be the result of a horse race where ten entries cloned from one champion race horse run against each other?

Would ten cloned beef cattle be the same weight and yield the same 'steak' flavor and tenderness?

Could a complete herd of cattle be cloned from the absolute best animal and always turn out good meat? And could this be repeated over and over to guarantee the 'best cut in town' every time we ate a steak?

Regarding human cloning, I am very interested in hearing about this issue and seeing the direction our nation's government (and world leaders) take us. I believe I could not ever condone any aspect of human cloning for fear of what it might do to the individual or multi-individual or plural-individual or whatever he may become.

Would a single soul reside in more than one body? Would separate souls live in each body?

Would the clones resulting from one original have a common psyche, like identical twins sometime display? Would this psyche be stronger than the original and be more nearly like the original than even the twins mind-link? Would a combined psyche made up of multiple clones be extremely enhanced in mind and power...or diluted, watered down?

As a scientist I have an inquiring mind; but as a christian moral agent, I do not want to ever see the work of any scientist or team of medical men put an individual human into such a potentially wracked state of existence.

The questions hang there? In my opinion, the questions should forever hang there. ManWalking50. 

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