From: Daniel
Hay,
Rush Limbaugh just said what I have been saying for a few years.
“Sooner or later someone will want to marry their pet”.
Can I be first, please….
Regards,
Dan H.
There is a type of argument called reductio ad absurdum, which tries to argue that something is false by taking it to the absurd level. In my view this does not invalidate the original argument, but only serves to show that going to the extreme might be a bad thing.
People by their nature have desires. What people desire varies from person to person. It is in the nature of human beings to be different and want different things. Wanting different things does not define a person or make them good or bad.
Now we know that some people wish to marry people of the same sex. Provided that this does not harm anyone else, for the government to tell people that they can’t do this is a form of oppression. You could argue that this would somehow have a negative impact on society, but the only way that this might possibly be true is if you consider homosexuality to be immoral, which I do not. Gambling, drinking and smoking have a negative impact on society, but we tolerate these things and regulate them because people are going to do them anyway and they are not bad in every situation.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
Therapeutic cloning: (a.k.a. Somatic cell nuclear transfer or research cloning): This starts with the same procedure as is used in adult DNA cloning. The resultant embryo would be allowed to grow for perhaps 14 days. It's stem cells would then be extracted and encouraged to grow into a piece of human tissue or a complete human organ for transplant. The end result would not be a human being; it would be a replacement organ, or piece of nerve tissue, or quantity of skin. The first successful therapeutic cloning was accomplished in 2001-NOV by Advanced Cell Technology, a biotech company in Worcester, MA.