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They had every right to kill them or harvest organs


idk wat the writer of this movie is on about but the clones were created with the $ of the sponsors, so the sponsors own them!!
its their right to do watever they want with them.
if u dont like it u are a stupid liberal communist

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Is that not like saying a man and woman have the right to harvest the organs of their children. What's the difference between cloning and conception? The movie clearly establishes that the clones have a soul, or want of a better word.

Hey! You're not old enough to drink! Now go and die for your country!!!

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Read Unwind by Neal Shusterman.

It's basically about post-abortion. Parents owning their children as property and until you are 18 and a legal adult, your parents can choose to abort you by sending you to be unwound. It's not killing because you're alive as they take you apart and they use every bit of you for medical procedures. So you don't die but live on in someone else. It's a chilling young adult novel that didn't get the exposure it should have because it came out the same year as the Hunger Games.

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Is that not like saying a man and woman have the right to harvest the organs of their children.


Wait, what? When did this happen? Oh man...


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How you made the assumption that money makes a person a product is beyond me. Nor that anyone who disagree is a liberal. It seems to me that many conservates may have a problem with it, especially if some believe in life at conception or pro life so it stand to reason that they would likely be the first to disagree. Then again any conservative or liberal with a conscious may disagree too. First, because clones are thinking and feeling people. People can say they werent or even bring the law into it. Still it doesnt change the fact that a clone of a human being is in fact a human being no matter how theyre born. Secondly, human trafficking and harvesting parts or people are an egrecious crimes, especially without the consent. If people are going to use logic on then slavery. Harvesting parts and human trafficking would be legal. It would make us no better than the slave traders and human traffickers who think a paid person or part that was kidnapped/ talken or sold is a product. Its not when it cones to people because they arent inanimate objects, they are people.

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Mate, one of the points of the film is that these were humans. And the treatment of them was criminally negligent.
It does not matter who "Paid" for them, not one little bit :)

You believe in slavery then. Unfortunately for you, slavery has been shown to be inhumane in every way possible.
To believe in slavery is pathetic and weak minded, and is a blight upon reason and humanity

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As a human I'm a bit embarrassed you got even this many genuine responses. How f#cking gullible are these people?



...then whoa, differences...

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