Heald:

Imagine if the same thing happens: Ol' Yeller kicks it while little Timmy is at school, so you clone him and get him home before Timmy sees the dead dog. I realise the cloning technology isn't that sophisticated yet but it could well be in the future.
- LOL lets protect the children by never ever knowing what death means. I can imagine this for some people. The way some families treat children in that they must be protected from absolutely everything is undoubtedly bringing up brats. Yeah sure theres always been brats, but think of your own age and your own childhood and then look at the youngsters currently growing up. Many of them are going to be problematic or are already problematic and what is this going to do in the future. Most of us Generation Yers already and considered non-ambitious and basically trouble. Imagine what the next generation will be like. So yeah I can see that happening.

Cloning could be beneficial for pets in order to eliminate genetic defects that blight generations of domestic animals, which would cause a vast downturn in veterinary costs and visits. It would also mean that breeders would probably go out of business as once you have a range of 'perfect' dogs, just clone them instead of breeding them. Likewise, the best race horse in the world could be cloned.
- Most genetic faults in domestic animals is exactly because they are cross-breeds and are typically bred by other cross-breeds and thus are not protected from most of the genetic faults that such breeds have. The whole point of breeding in many ways is to breed them deficient of genetic faults. I don't really see how cloning will fix this. In fact rather what you are looking at in the future, is breeders moving towards more artificial breeding with the removal of certain genetic traits and the like to remove abnormalities and genetic faults. This is also happening in human births as well. Thus I don't see how Cloning improve things. And also will Cloning say a champion winning horse means it will be a champion horse. I would have thought it wouldn't be much different from what we already have which is champion horses being used as studs etc.

Thus I am not sure cloning would provide anymore benefits that current breeding systems have already.

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Redstar/WC/Raven:

First off, cloning would be nothing like The 6th Day. That isn't simple cloning to begin with and if we were capable of that, then I wouldn't mind getting my pet cloned.
Hmm I found this bit interesting that you mentioned. When I think, clone a pet dog that looks just like my pet dog and then shift memories and that to it. Is it still the same dog? Or is there merely an artificiality to the whole thing? I still maintain even if THAT was possible. I still wouldn't go for it.