This will be a reality in a not so distant
future, scientific and medical discoveries and improvements will allow us to
clone ourselves and the question is “would YOU do it?”
There are lots of reasons for you to want to
clone yourself; having an identical heir, an evil twin or even for organ
transplantation. But of course you have to look at the ethical and moral
barriers that this action would imply. For instance, some religious
perspectives consider the hypothetical clone to be a soulless, empty, and
synthetic body. Also, you would have to take into account that you would need a
woman’s womb to fully create your clone. Money could also be a problem, because
this may not be a very cheap procedure at first.
If the scientists really want to make human
cloning possible I think they will have to look for a very good reason to do it
other than “because we can”. That is not
an excuse to give life to a copied person, how would you explain that he or she
is not an authentic human being? That is just an unnatural person? The questions
remain open and someone in the future will have to answer.
For detailed information on the subject of human cloning, please visit this web page http://www.humancloning.org/
I am against human cloning because it is against nature! From a religious point of view, God made us uniques and it is that uniqueness that help us define ourselves as human beings. Also, from the biological perspective, we do not know the side effects that cloning can have on that human clone, so it is not fair to give life to someone who is not only a copy but also a copy that could experience a very difficult life.
ReplyDeleteHuman cloning may bring benefits in terms of medical advances, but we don't have the right to play with someone's life as if he or she was just an empty person.
Then I guess you agree with me when I say that scientists can not use the argument "because we can" to support their actions. I'm also against human cloning and I agree with you that we don't have the right to play with someone's life, even if he or she is a clone. Also, there are no laws for now in the matter, but I think some laws should be made beforehand to prevent any misuse of human cloning.
DeleteI agree with you guys! I don´t think we should clone ourselves because that would be like playing to be God. Furthermore, I think there are no reasons to do it, even if you are sick and we need a body organ to save your life, because if we can clon someone, of course we can find a better way to heal instead of cloning and using the clon´s organs. I think that cloning should remain like it is... only in the movies!
DeleteVery good point there Nicolas! If we have the advanced technology for cloning ourselves we should have advanced technology enough to solve other problems which are more important!
DeleteI do not think cloning yourself would have sense at all. For some people - perhaps not now but in the future- would be as “finally I have someone who can completely understand me”, “of course, he is like me”. But that is the point; the clone would not be “me” or “you” but “like me / you” and there is a tiny but huge difference at the same time.
ReplyDeleteEvery person is unique, as my classmate Adolfo said. I share this because there has not been any human being, all over the world, who has been identical to another individual. It is impossible to think you will have “another me” and if someone thinks so, it is only for arrogance, superciliousness or to take advantage of that “benefit”. Also, it is quite complicated to say whether that clone would be considered a person with rights or not. For me it will always be no more than a robot created for causes than may have other solutions.
Science is a field which wants to be one step further all the time, winning whichever field you can imagine. The issue is: How ethically correct is that?
It is very important what you said right there Karla concerning to the way society will see a cloned person. Will he or she have the same rights of a normal human being? As I replied to Adolfo; laws regulating human cloning do not exist, but they should be made before cloned people appeared!
DeleteI really like this topic but I would not know which side to take. I don't see anything wrong with a clone, or a person that wants to clone themself and I don't see why would someone need to.
ReplyDeleteThis topic also reminds me of a movie (also a TV show)called Aeon Flux in which two brothers of the most important family in the city start cloning themselves and teaching everything about them to their young versions, so that they can govern forever.
As I said before, I don't see anything wrong in cloning but the uses of it depend a lot on the people that use it and how they do so.