Ordinary Day

Yes, I am a learned optimist - so I do have eventual hope that this cloning stuff will be handled responsibility and will actually be very useful in the future. Distant future, mind you, since I am also a natural pessimist and believe that before we get to that stage, we're going to have some very F*ed up experiments and such.

It's not a requirement we go through life with extraneous limbs and organs and such - but it would be nice if we had the option to get certain things replaced, if desired. Personally, I don't think I would want to get another eye (I've had an artifical eye from birth - bourn with only 1) - think of the trippy depth perception - since I have already lived and learned how to deal with my world for 30 years like this. Although, if I were younger, I think the option of getting a new eye and having the advantage of 2 eyes would be nice.

We have a long way to go and reading that article did make me nervous a bit, too.