Cloning humans - yes or no?

Question

I am certain the government has the technology to do this, and most likely is or has experimented with it. And lets face it, its coming, especially concidering all the the genetic engineering that is already being offered at ungodly rates to couples who want to have the perfect baby. So the question is, what do you think of human cloning? Do you think it will be eventually legal, years in the future? Is it morally right or wrong?

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Are you kidding me?!?!? "The government doesn't do experiments." Perhaps you should do some deep research on this cloning topic before you answer a complex question such as this one.

Answer 1

Scientists already have the technology to clone a human being. Yes, I believe it will be legal and common in the future. Whether it's morally right or wrong, I guess depends on the individual's moral standards. I'm somewhat concerned about the intelligence of using this type of technology at this time, but mainly because of the disastrous consequences I envision. Consequences that we might not see in this generation, but possibly in those to come. I can only base it on our own history which is replete with questionable outcomes from meddling with various plant and animal lifeforms.

Answer 2

Tha argument wether cloning could be allowed or no longer is spurious because of the fact it ignores one fundermental actuality. in case you clone an entire man or woman, you do no longer, and you are able to no longer, finally end up with precisely the comparable individual. there's a technique in nature called entropy, it is area of thermodynamics, and it precludes any clone ever being an exact reproduction of the unique. in case you cloned your self the next day, the clone does not be you, they does not be attentive to what you be attentive to, or inevitably have your character. a individual is the made from many aspects, some are genetic, and could be copied to an particularly extreme accuracy (yet no longer one hundred% ideal - nature merely does not enable it), yet yet another component is nurture, the clone does not strengthen up interior the comparable atmosphere as you, have the comparable acquaintances, or instructors as you, and could adventure different existence classes. The pop music they listened to could be different. you need to clone Hitler or Stalin or a family individuals member that died, and the clones could be self reliant sencient entities with the human rights that incorporate that status. they does not be the unique Hitler, or Stalin, or the guy who died. this could be a risky phantasm that degraded and cheapened the existence of the replace (ask prince harry how lots exciting being the spare is!) So cloning an entire man or woman isn't any different than growing to be the different man or woman, they could merely seem a hell of lots like the unique, and in all possibility proportion some inhereted genetic traits and behaivours. while comparable twins are born, we don't sit down and communicate wether or no longer that's a sturdy element, and twins growing to be up interior the comparable domicile, on the comparable time, with the comparable mothers and dads and acquaintances, would be many situations greater alike than any clone made two decades later. The question is greater, at what point of reproduction does a man or woman become a man or woman. in case you created a clone with out techniques so which you need to apply the physique for spare areas, is that ethical? it is that this question you may come across to your instructor, at what point of organic and organic completeness is a man or woman a man or woman?

Answer 3

i don't know if enough support will ever exist for cloning. who in their right mind would want their dna being tested and tweaked? i think when most people think of cloning they think of having a twin or a double. however, the clone will still be an infant. so, what would be the advantage of having a 35 yr old man with an infant clone of himself? you couldn't use the baby's organs since they are small and underdeveloped to support a grown person's body. the most you could hope to use is the stem cells from the baby's umbilical cord, but still the person requesting the cells would still have to be responsible for the subsequent child. i can't imagine that with all of the conservatives in the country and in government that something like that will ever be considered legal. plus, it would cause confusion in processing crime cases. imagine a 55 yr old man and his 20 yr old clone. one could commit crimes, but it would be impossible to tell from dna evidence which was the perpatrator. it would depend on an eyewitness to view the crime and say if the perp was young or old. if the perp wore a maske or covered his face, again even an eyewitness wouldn't help.

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Answer 4

I don't see the problem. If we were a race of beings who had developed a community where many men contributed sperm for one egg to give the fetus as much potency as possible (in a way we do do that), then someone discovered that all you need is one man to one woman, no doubt there would be screaming from the masses for changing tradition. They will scream, but evolution moves on with or without your belief; we have and always will change, though usually not a discernible amount in one lifetime, but our lifetime has seen the pill that has totally freed women and given social change a big push. Cloning is just another step. I took genetic engineering until my homework ate my dog.

Answer 5

You've been reading too much sci-fi. The technology almost certainly exists. Beyond that you are way off base. The government doesn't perforn experiments. The pharmaceutical companies do. The only genetic engineering that's done is on bacteria because they produce such wonderful drugs.
If cloning were actually done, you'd have a twin young enough to be your child. What's the point?

Answer 6

Human cloning is something, that you don't hear about everyday. It might lead to confusion, if we do clone people. Seeing a number of the same person can get confusing, like twins.

Answer 7

I believe morally it is wrong. God is the ultimate creator. But to look at it from human standpoint. It they do something wrong, commit a crime, hurt someone, any thing- how do you punish them. They have the best defense ever "Hey I am a clone I didnt know better" How do fight against that.

Answer 8

Not full humans...but I see nothing wrong at all with cloning specific human organs for transplant.

If we have the technology to successfully heal sick people, it is madness not to use it.

Answer 9

I would not want not be cloned. I really don't see the point. Are we going to give up the old-fashioned way? Or are people going to assume they are gods and can pick out what genes will live and what genes will die? I don't know anyone I would trust, do you?

Answer 10

Sure why not my body needs a new host