Hari Raya is here, but I've yet to go jalan-jalan other than Day #1. Its not that I didn't want to, relatives and uncles and aunts just keep coming, and it was odd that amidst all the commotion and salam-salaman, I managed to watch 'The Island' on Channel 5. And unfortunately no, it is nothing like the Survivor Series.
The movie was about a company, which offers clones as insurance policies. Let's just say that if a customer had kidney failure, or perhaps, liver failure, they could get a transplant from their clones who, well... Have to be killed in order to have their organs harvested. There is an option too to have a clone carry your baby for the whole 9 months. Before it all began, the company painted a rosy picture of their exact replicas, being kept in a vegetative state, not having any consciousness, or memories, but in reality, these replicas are alive, and move about like any other human. This is all possible with as little as US$5,000,000.
I remembered watching the movie 3 years back. It made me wonder if humans would go to that extent to live longer. Though it is an unethical alternative to acquiring new organs, who knows, some mad scientist might have already cloned the first human in pursuit of eternal life. In my opinions, clones have feelings, ideas, a working mind, and it would be wrong to perceive them as mere products, or tools like in the movie.
I'm not too sure if Man can ever engineer a living kidney, or even a finger. There are substitutes for bone such as aluminum crutches and all, but nothing beats the real thing. Okay, scientists have had success cultivating human ears on mice, but duh, you have to kill the mouse in order to get the ear. Even this mouse created uproar from the animal rights groups. Nevertheless, I doubt in my lifetime, Man will be successful in ever making one.
The movie was about a company, which offers clones as insurance policies. Let's just say that if a customer had kidney failure, or perhaps, liver failure, they could get a transplant from their clones who, well... Have to be killed in order to have their organs harvested. There is an option too to have a clone carry your baby for the whole 9 months. Before it all began, the company painted a rosy picture of their exact replicas, being kept in a vegetative state, not having any consciousness, or memories, but in reality, these replicas are alive, and move about like any other human. This is all possible with as little as US$5,000,000.
I remembered watching the movie 3 years back. It made me wonder if humans would go to that extent to live longer. Though it is an unethical alternative to acquiring new organs, who knows, some mad scientist might have already cloned the first human in pursuit of eternal life. In my opinions, clones have feelings, ideas, a working mind, and it would be wrong to perceive them as mere products, or tools like in the movie.
I'm not too sure if Man can ever engineer a living kidney, or even a finger. There are substitutes for bone such as aluminum crutches and all, but nothing beats the real thing. Okay, scientists have had success cultivating human ears on mice, but duh, you have to kill the mouse in order to get the ear. Even this mouse created uproar from the animal rights groups. Nevertheless, I doubt in my lifetime, Man will be successful in ever making one.
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