Even if Teleportation becomes technically possible, it will probably not be used....

[Dorian Gray]

This in no way follows from the rest of your post. Sure, if teleportation were possible there might be various ethical and legal issues. When has that ever stopped us from doing something?

Well, um... has anyone ever cloned a human? It's technologically possible, but.. no one has done it. Or if they have, they're keeping it a secret for some reason.

That's one. I've answered your "ever".

But I continue. Who gets drugs and products tested on them first? Not humans - animals. Who gets sent into space first? Not humans - animals. Do humans serve as intentional crash test dummies in tests run by the government or by Consumer Reports? No, they use dummies. There's three more.

You don't kill people. There's another one. Seriously, I could do this all ****** day. There are TONS of things that people don't do for various ethical and legal reasons. And even if you move your goalposts and insist that by "us" you meant "humans", there's still the cloning, drugs/products, space and crash tests.

 

[Brian-M]

Well, um... has anyone ever cloned a human? It's technologically possible, but.. no one has done it. Or if they have, they're keeping it a secret for some reason.

It took over 200 attempts to produce Dolly the sheep, and great apes (including humans) are even harder than sheep. Attempts to clone humans are currently in progress (getting around laws against it by basing their operations in countries where it isn't illegal yet). The reason why it's illegal in most countries is that cloning attempts very rarely produce a healthy offspring.

Here's a video about it...

 

[ThePoliteSkeptic]

Seems like a round about way to talk about cloning.

It would be easier to tell with cloning, because one person would be decades older than the other one.

 

[Soapy Sam]

My major use for teleportation would be trasmitting bits of paper with "BOMB!" written on them to the teleportation booths of major corporations.

 

[Cuddles]

Well, um... has anyone ever cloned a human? It's technologically possible, but.. no one has done it. Or if they have, they're keeping it a secret for some reason.

That's one. I've answered your "ever".

As Brian-M says, they're trying. It's not the ethical problems stopping people, it's the simple fact that we can't actually do it yet. Far from keeping it secret, various people have claimed to have cloned people, despite not actually having done so. It's so not secret that people boast about it before it's even happened.

You don't kill people. There's another one. Seriously, I could do this all ****** day.

You could act hilariously stupid all day? Feel free, but I'm not sure why you'd want to. Seriously, you're trying to claim that we don't kill people? Have you ever watched the news? Read a book? Talked to a single other human being? Claiming that we don't kill people quite is quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever seen anyone claim on this forum. You could come up with some bizarre combination of creationism, hollow Earth, flat Earth and shape-shifting reptilians, and it still would not be as insane as claiming that humans don't kill each other.

And even if you move your goalposts and insist that by "us" you meant "humans"

Yes, because obviously by "us" I actually meant "genetically modified hamsters".

there's still the cloning, drugs/products, space and crash tests.

So lets see, we're trying to do cloning, we do test drugs and other products, we do send people into space, and we do use people in crash tests. But yes, other than every single thing you said being entirely wrong, I agree with you completely.

 

[Dorian Gray]

Yes, because obviously by "us" I actually meant "genetically modified hamsters".

Edited by LibraryLady: 

Edited for civility

By 'we' you could have meant anything - you and me, you and people in this thread, you and people in this forum, you and people in your state, you and people in general, etc. Your [attitude] is unwarranted based on your lack of clarification of your use of the term 'we'.

I was talking about the average person as defined within a bell curve, who is basically moral and ethical, not the extreme people which hopefully we can agree are hideous exceptions. I also meant on a widespread and common basis. This drove the rest of my comments.

For example, we (all humans) aren't rich, we aren't the President of the United States, we aren't CEOs of multinational conglomerates, etc.... and we probably won't be teleporting humans for moral and ethical reasons. Your position suggests we are rich CEO PsOTUS simply because some of us are or have been.

Please keep it civil.

Replying to this modbox in thread will be off topic  Posted By: LibraryLady

 

[rocketdodger]

I would certainly kill a copy of myself if the circumstances required it.

 

[Woolgatherer]

I've thought about this just for fun. I always worry that if you have two points, (both on a planets surface) fairly distant where the atmospheric pressure is different and you are using a shuttle to go through a kind of wormhole, you will create a vortex and destroy life.