cloning opnions?

Question

ok im going to do a persuasive essay on human cloning my side is kinda inbetween..... ill tell u my side and u can tell me your sides so i can add them to my report...... i think cloning should be legal to experiment with to find out how mother nature works and for the medical side like cloning for organs or brains to somthing like that but should not be used for any type cloning to just let clones walk around like natural humans, and should not be used for any type of warfair....... uhhh thats bout all i got to say right now, all i can think of, i would like to hear your side of cloning so i can get a better understanding of what people think of it and to sumwhat get a better grade in english class..... thx

Answer 1

The issue of cloning, once beyond the morality of it, would cross from biology into psychology. There are truly amazing things to be learned from experimenting with human cloning, and the day has not yet come where it is a widely accepted. Cloning does have it's biological purposes, including observing the "fraying" of DNA... but organs? That doesn't strike me as important, if someone needed an organ so bad to have a clone made to give to that person, well, let's say there are donors out there and the clone wouldn't develop quickly enough, and keeping a your-age clone around just in case you need that organ right away is kind of pointless. As to "how nature works", this is where it'd get into psychology, ex. the Do Souls Exist question, and I doubt they'd discover much more than "Look! They have exactly the same DNA and they are sooooo much alike!" I'm not sure about warfare, for what would you use them for? Testing to see if you, genetically, can be affected by biological or chemical weapons? Pointless, again, I believe. And I suppose if people get into a knot and go about seeing clones as inferior or something, as the human race has the idiotic tendency to do, then they might have inclination to go 'send the inferiors to fight out war for us!!'
As for walking around like normal humans, well, I think clones could be quite useful someday, maybe in specialized intelligence training programs. Plus, on a more personal note, I was an only child and I longed for a sibling, or more like a twin. Imagine if families could have the option of having their children cloned! And don't tell me you don't believe it would be just a little bit cool to have another you walking around. Sorry, sure, this gets into the 'maybes', but I really, truly think cloning humans has many more benefits than downsides, especially in the field of psychology.

I'm also pretty sure it is legal.... But as a friend said, "You would get mobbed and killed within hours anyway by nutters with clubs." That is, if anyone knows.

Answer 2

If we could clone individual organs (without making an actual person) for transplants, I am for it. Possibly animals for research as long as it was done humanely and with strict controls.

Other than that, there is no use for cloning that I can see. Livestock can be bred by artficial insemination, they've been doing it for years. As for humans, I am against it for obvious moral reasons.

Animals need to breed and mix genes for biological reasons, thats how they develop and adapt in the world. Biology is all about changes. If we start carbon copying, the results could be disastrous. Can you imagine a world where there were billions of copies of you? How would you have sex? Even if there weren't billions, we would eventually get to a point where our partners are offsprings of a our own cloned mutual grandfathers/grandmothers.

Answer 3

Cloning, is completly useless (in my opinion). As someone above said, it just makes an identical twin of whatever, or whoever you are cloning. Earth is not threatend by overpopulation, but by the lack of food for the people living. You might as well have a kid! People are quite afraid of cloning thinking that someone might want to clone Hitler, when really clones are just people like you and me. You can't clone memories (yet...).

Answer 4

Human cloning for me is somewhat a common virus spreading around the community who victimizes thoughts of those people who are boastful...why? because it is impossible for science to create something in which he could not perfectly do...even with the latest technology's design in cloning it cannot surpass what the Almighty Father could create. If science will say he could clone something with his own knowledge...he is "daydreaming"...tnx

Answer 5

The thing is, cloning a person just means that they will have the same DNA as another person, an identicle twin as it were. This still makes them a person, and not an object that should be used for organ harvesting.

Answer 6

I don't think it's good. Look what happened to Dolly. She died in less than half the time that other sheep die.