Monkey Clones Created in the Lab. Now What?

Leave it to the scientist, they'll be doing human clones next.

I realize the interest in the project, however, I'd offer a few thoughts, if I might. First, I find the project quite potentially ethically troublesome for several reasons. Closing Dolly the sheep is one thing, that's purely agricultural, and I can entirely understand the rationale for it. However, cloning a primate is, at least to me, ethically mettlesome. Where that's headed, is quite obvious, at least to me, I'd seen the story, I was very troubled by it. The country that did it, I think, at least from what I'd read, hasn't got the greatest ethical track record, I think, and it's manifestly apparent that the object is to go to humans eventually! Whether for potential organ harvesting or what have you, that's pure slippery slope Frankenstein, as far as I'm concerned, potentially capable of up-ending human society, sociologically. Some boundrparies in science should very definitely not be crossed, regardless of how technologically feasible they evolve to be. I'm quite sure the guys who did the Manhattan Project initially thought that was innocuous, also, I'm sure Einstein thought he was doing the right thing in signing that letter to FDR, and look where that's taken the world for the past more than 70 yrs now. So, before anyone gets all too excited, saying oh, gee whiz, aren't they cute, and all that, I'd encourage all here to remember that he very scenario those creatures embody has been reflected on by sci fi for decades now, both ethically, as well as morally. I'd read in a novel once a very true aphorism, "Human technology changes human morality." Candidly, I can't think of anything I'd say more fittingly deserves that particular aphorism than that, at least to my mind, woefully short-sigheted, and utterly barbaric experiment, an agricultural animal is not a primate, cloning a primate crosses a sentient line that the human race should take a really, seriously, long and hard look at, before even having the temerity to passively accept it, and just label the results as !merely cute, that's all I'm saying, as has been said very frequently in some very perceptive sci fi, some final frontiers really should not be crossed, I realize I might be disagreed wit, however, as I've said in here sevl times, before my now total perm disability. I've been a scientist, a real one, I never published, I was very seriously trained in engineering, physics, math, comp sci, chem, and the biosciences, and was also allied health doctoral level, though not medicine, we shut my license due to my disability some yrs ago. Trust me, that experiment is, to me, anything but cute, to me, and, most esp., given where it was apparently done, I find it, quite candidly, absolutely terrifying, I realize Ithat's my own personal view, however, as I'd said, ethically, that country hasn't been exactly the greatest, so I certainly wouldn't put cloning humans past them next in the agenda, and that, trust me, would ne a true, Godforsaken horror show, a nightmare or truly Brobdignagian proportions, and a place I quite frankly think science, serious science, has zero business being, I'd be most eager for other views, I'm jot meaning to paint A Clockwork Orange here, however, quite honestly, I think that an experiment like that one can only wind up eventually being precisely that kind of surreal sci fi Frankenstein nightmare, I hope that was at least of some interest and/or value, many thanks.

Technology is a train SSG(P) (Join to see) either you board it to a destination which may not be the one you intended or wait around on the tracks looking puzzled and hesitant as others use it to run you over. I don't know about you but I'm a little sick and tired of the lack of American scientists not being at the fore front of science innovation.