bring in the clones! NOT.

I am upset, thoroughly kicked-about upset. English class and Psy is really bothering me. They're bringing up a lot of controversial issues, forcing me to think about them much longer than I would like. Last week's topic was feminism (it's still floating around in my head). This week's, cloning.

Now I have some very strong opinions regarding cloning. I am absolutely 100% against it. I will admit that cloning does have it's pros. Cloning cattles or crops to end world hunger and I will give you that cloning is extremely advantageous when it comes to organ harvesting to save lives , I'm all for saving lives, but that's where I draw the line. Only, that's just me. No one else is going to listen to me and stop just there. I mean, I've seen scientists get all excited and pumped up when they've managed to successfully clone a plant genome. And as humans, we all love a good challenge and one of cloning a human, plus the recognition of being the first one to successfully do so, is just there, tauting us. Who's to say STOP! YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR! Our society is such that eventually, each wrong will become a norm, our standards are all relative, soon, we'll be blind to all ethical issues if this continues. Even talking about organ harvesting, I have some qualms about it. Do you give a patient who's kidney has failed due to alcoholism a new kidney? Would we be leading humans to have the notion that we are now invincible, that we are able to preserve our aging minds in a forever young body, leading us to abuse the original body we were born in? And if you decide not to give the alcoholic a new kidney but instead use those stem cells to help, say, a patient with Parkinson's Disease, well, in our 'modern' society, isn't alcoholism the new disease? And when we begin cloning more and more organs, do we clone headless bodies to prevent these clones to have a mind of their own? That's just sick.

And for those who wish to have a child but are unable to do so for I don't care what reasons, how about adopting? Sure, it's not exactly your very own child but you'll be saving a child who is not fortunate enough to have a family. I would rather the problems that come with adoptions than see mini-me's running around the neighbourhood. Think about it. Would my kid be my kid? Or me? If my kid is me, then who's my kid's parents? Me? Or my parents? Besides, the world can only handle one of me. =) When we begin cloning mini-me's, the next obvious step would be to select certain traits we want our mini-me's to have. This leads to another problem. These processes do cost money (although the prediction is that twenty years down the road, it really isn't going to cost all that much). So the rich now over and on top of being born into money, they now get to have all the perfect traits as well. So the rich get richer and more perfect, while the poor gets.. well, you get the idea. The disparity between the two will become more apparent. Sigh.

When this wheel starts spinning, there's no stopping it. So we shouldn't even get it going at all! X it out! What scared me the most was how many people in my class was alright with cloning. I almost fainted when I saw the number of hands go up. I could have sworn I almost cried in class. Cry because I feel horribly sad in the direction our world is heading towards. (And also how many women feel that they have to choose between motherhood and working, that they cannot do both. I think we forget, motherhood isn't the choice here, work is. Omgoodness, I have a whole lot more of things to say about feminism but that's for another post, or my Engl essay. That'll work.)

Wanna know the funny thing, I'm doing Genetics lab this sem and guess what our class project is. We are to clone a new corn genome we discovered ourselves. Our findings would be made available for all to see and the project is funded by NSF. Ha. Ha ha. Ha ha ha. See my problem?

This entry is way too somber it's giving me a headache and drowning my spirit. I really don't want to sound.. simple, but these two weeks, too many serious issues have been thrown my way, totally throwing me off. I'm so thankful for Mayday! They are the best in cheering me up. "Everything will be alright! Tomorrow will be fine!" "lian ai ING! HAPPY ING!" Whooo! Think simple, cheery, happy thoughts. Cheers! =)

I just need to say this. Jennifer Hudson is going to ruin SATC The Movie for me.

Today's an important in American History and I think it's only right to mention it. Never forget. Remember that day, six years ago. I truly respect every single hero who were there or who were just affected by the outcomes of that fateful day. Suddenly my problems don't seem that important anymore.