Visions of a cloned future
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With cloning in the news lately, SatireWire warns about an ominous future in Human Embryo Cloned: Can “Chain” Stores, “Subdivisions,” be far behind?
<q>… a world populated by clones would be totally unrecognizable to us — a macabre, doppleganger environment in which the like-minded inhabitants shop at cookie-cutter “chain” stores, apishly watch television shows patterned after the same theme, and even run their computers with the same operating system.</q>
Mark Morford envisions the same horrible type of world in Don’t Clone The Vatican Forget creating a super-race; let’s just weed out uptight moral doctrine instead (he needs to make shorter titles):
<q>…[A world] where everyone looks alike and dresses alike and has the same kind of uninteresting sex and takes the same drugs and drives the same car and you can paint your tract home any color you like, so long as it’s beige. Just like Orange County [California].</q>