Poll of the Day: Clone Wars

[RoboMonkey]

I don't really have an opinion regarding the ethics of human cloning other than that it seems unnecessary.

As for playing god, in my post I wrote "abilities and technology that would make us godlike". Godlike abilities could be, like you said, "a godlike understanding of science and the consequences of your actions". Of course there would be obvious dangers in lacking such abilities if one was to attempt to "play god". If mankind did possess such abilities, we could accomplish much. And you're right, gods can be evil (by some definitions) but that doesn't make them any less divine, and evil is really just a meaningless construct, especially when speaking of gods. They are surely beyond good and evil.

well then let's take the arbitrary good and evil out of the situation entirely. I only used them as something we all could relate to.

I guess it depends on what kind of gods we wish to be. Whether we wish to be ones who destroy or create, that would be up to us. But I'm guessing we don't wish to destroy anything. I'm not against humans having "godlike" abilities and technology, just I'd rather remain cautious. We almost killed everything with nuclear weapons because we almost couldn't control ourselves. I guess it's about learning to control ourselves rather than how much technology we can possess.

 

[Azaghul]

I'd bet domestication was about saving lives too at some point. Only very recently in history did we have an abundance of food.

To some degree, but in many ways meat was (and is a luxury good) that takes a lot more work and resources than growing plants in most cases.