2006-10-03 03:42:15 · 5 answers · asked by patrinakaye 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
why are we playing god?
who decides whether a good person or evil person gets cloned?
do we make a replica of the same flawed person?
will the clone be exactly the same as the original?
who will judge?
2006-10-03 03:50:37 · answer #1 · answered by jeanne g 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most of the moral issues against cloning are mostly unfounded. The idea of having "two of one person" doesn't seem to fly with some people, but it would be like having a twin, who is 30 years younger than you. They might have your face, but not your experiences. It would give infertile couples a way to reproduce. Even if they clone many of the same person, they may look alike, but they're not the same person. They're not actually Joe 2 and 3 and 4. They just look like him. And because the doctors know Joe's medical history(meaning inherited genetic diseases), they're able to help Joe2 3 and 4 through their lives. many claim it's playing god. i disagree. If god exists, then he gave us the capability to engineer ways to prolong our existences.
One more thing, science is gettting close to cloning individual organs, WITHOUT cloning the whole person. could you imagine how many lives could be saved? using a person for organ harvesting is immoral...but cloning a new liver, just by itself? that would be a life saving thing. Also this whole organ harvesting out of clones, isn't really practical. How would that work. When I'm 25, i decide to clone myself because i have a faulty heart. I'll be well into my 40's before the clones heart is available for harvesting...and the heart condition would still be there, because it's my clone.
2006-10-03 10:55:06 · answer #2 · answered by Chit P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The issue is not about cloning per se, but about what clones would be used for.
Suppose you clone yourself only to have a good healthy copy of yourself ready to be an organ donor. Is that moral to create a perfectly good human being only to be harvested for organs and who would be killed in the process?
Another problem is that previous clones of mammals (sheep, cows, etc) have shown them to have some kind of degeneracies in them, like they were born old or something like that. Creating someone who is born "crippled" does bring some issues. Perhaps research will find a way to prevent this sort of mishaps.
Other people may have other issues -- like religious ones -- but for myself, the one about organ harvesting is the main one. If we could clone stand alone, isolated organs ready for grafting, then all would be good, as far as I am concerned.
2006-10-03 10:53:16 · answer #3 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I remember when a sheep was cloned and the poor animal had so many health issues, plus he/she died very early in life. In a nutshell, one issue is that we are testing cloning on animals and sometimes the results are inhumane.
2006-10-03 10:50:22 · answer #4 · answered by RKC 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Devaluing of life. Playing God. Treating a clone's body parts as a comodity (spare parts bank).
2006-10-03 10:50:05 · answer #5 · answered by IT Pro 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋