2008 Woodie Awards
We can clone it for you wholesale
Soheil Rezaee
Issue date: 5/27/08 Section: Opinion
Best of all, one could only imagine how much the entertainment industry could benefit from human cloning. Why risk stuntmen in movies when you could just blow up or kill off a clone of the actor? Imagine how much more violent Peter Weller's death scene in "RoboCop" would have been with a clone rather than computer graphics and special effects.
The benefits of cloning for entertainment could expand beyond the realm of cinema and into the sports industry. After waiting for centuries, we could finally enjoy death fights between gladiators like the Romans once did. Just think: teams of clones in a live battle to the death inside a huge stadium and in front of a live audience! Or perhaps on a smaller scale, people could start hosting cockfights in their basements using hybrid human-rooster clones.
These suggestions are only a small sample of what human cloning might offer society. The true dream will never fully be realized until scientists are able to actually clone a human being. It is wrong to allow superstition and doubt to stand in the way of our civilization progressing.
Disclaimer: This opinion is meant to be satirical. So don't get all upset about it.
The benefits of cloning for entertainment could expand beyond the realm of cinema and into the sports industry. After waiting for centuries, we could finally enjoy death fights between gladiators like the Romans once did. Just think: teams of clones in a live battle to the death inside a huge stadium and in front of a live audience! Or perhaps on a smaller scale, people could start hosting cockfights in their basements using hybrid human-rooster clones.
These suggestions are only a small sample of what human cloning might offer society. The true dream will never fully be realized until scientists are able to actually clone a human being. It is wrong to allow superstition and doubt to stand in the way of our civilization progressing.
Disclaimer: This opinion is meant to be satirical. So don't get all upset about it.
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Josh
posted 5/27/08 @ 10:17 PM PST
The sad thing is that some people actually think like this, and believe this would be a likely future if human cloning were to be legalised.
The key things people need to know about cloning are:
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