Do you think cloning is ethical?

Answer 1

no

Yes

It depends on your definition of ethical. Is it unethical to clone cattle for food? Is it unethical to clone mice for pharmaceutical study?

Opponents say "it's playing God", but they said that about almost every medical advancement from Birth Control pills to heart transplants, and even to genetically-modified foods. (Humans have been genetically modifying food and animals forever through selective breeding. In-vitro and DNA manipulation simply speeds up the process).

Why would or should cloning humans be any different? Identical twins are a result of cloning in the womb. Take religion out of the picture and you would have a hard time making the unethical argument.

What would be unethical would be cloning for spare parts. If the cloned person was treated no differently than a twin, a complete human person, then where is the problem?

Answer 2

There are multiple legal issues of cloning as the science and corresponding government policy are constantly evolving. One core issue is the use and harvesting of embryonic stem cells for human cloning. Some American state legislatures have specifically banned even attempts at such human clones. More than two-dozen nations have outright banned cloning for the purposes of human reproduction. The legal issues in regards to animals are maintaining the spirit of law as it pertains to if cloning and genetic engineering imposes forms of cruelty or suffering upon them.

Answer 3

One of the ancient philosophical problems that have plagued mankind is the question, 'What is ethical?' In today’s society, ethicists are still divided. Some people believe that what is right is based on the books that were allegedly written by people under the influence of greater beings. They believe that something is wrong if it violates their set of rules that were supposedly given to them by god. These people base their beliefs on religion, which is based on faith. Faith is the belief in something without proof. Because belief in god is an irrational belief any works that take root in the existence of god cannot be credible. The people who say that human cloning is wrong because it is not what god wants is not only basing their arguments on vague passages of The Bible, but also assuming that the bible is a valid source, which is not a safe assumption to make as I have shown above. NOTE: Anyone who has counter-arguments to the arguments above, please post them as well, as this is a highly controversial topic. Do not delete what is written above, unless you have a legitimate objection. Another system of ethics is called utilitarianism. In utilitarianism an action is deemed right or wrong based on the amount of pleasure or pain it produces. The more pleasure produced and pain reduced, the closer an action is to being right. The problem with utilitarianism is that it is incredibly hard to judge whether an action is right or wrong due to the difficulty in predicting the effects of an action. Take human cloning for example. It might lead to an apocalyptic disease that decimate all human life, then mutates so that apes can catch it too, then continues to mutate until all life upon the earth is gone. But in the most likely scenario nothing like this will happen. People, particularly religious people have an objection to cloning and will be displeased if humans are cloned. The compounded effect of many unhappy people might outweigh the few hundred thousand who benefit. Another problem with cloning if we take a Utilitarian view is that money spent on cloning could be spent preventing preventable diseases in 3rd world countries. This would save many lives and create much more pleasure than if the same amount of funds had been invested in human cloning. So even if the actual cloning of a human does not raise ethical problems, the use of funds to do so, does, unless one thinks that cloning a human would create more pleasure than saving thousands of children from preventable diseases. “Progress for progresses’ sake must be prohibited” This is a quote from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, when Dolores Umbridge is lecturing the students of Hogwarts on the Ministry’s plans for the school. Its significance is that we should not be wasting funds on research if it means we do not have the resources to save those who would otherwise be left behind. Using money to clone human stem cells to cure diseases such as Alzheimer’s is a not a very good use of funds, as it could create more happiness and extinguish more suffering. Research should be analysed to find out if it is ethical.

Answer 4

well if you look to animal cloning, then although there are many advantages for example adults of desirablequalities cn be breed by farmers and the use for organs or conservation of species, there are many ethical considerations firtsly there is the always issue of will people take it to far, clones reduce genetic diversity and their are disadvatages f that, also the major issue is the fact that their are inperfect embroy development assocated with the technique, i canlt rememebr the exact number but there were 100s fo trials before dolly was created and she deveoped lung cancer and artritis at a young age so its not a perfect technique if your looking at thereapeutic cloning, which is just clning up to the stage of getting the stem cells from a blastocyst then that has many advatnages in that it will be a perfect match to the original cell used in medicine bu then again the eggs are on short supply unconfortbe fo rthe donor( of the eggs) oh and also with this method the embroy is destroyed but could benefit many people ....? with plant cloning useful to create affordble all year round products .... hope this helps

Answer 5

The risks and ethical issues of cloning are so many. Some of them include damage to the genetics, putting the mother to a great health risk and so much more.