Should cloning be encouraged

Answer 1

Cloning is a very complex question.

Even with the plant and animal kingdom, religion and ethics play a role.

"Clonal Crops" are very susceptible to disease. Yet, they probably aren't being made truly with cloning.

There would be a few places where cloning may be of interest.

#1 - Cloning can provide better "control groups" for experiments by giving very similar organisms for use in testing. This could give more accuracy in scientific studies as well as reduce the number of organisms that would need to be tested.

#2 - Cloning technology is intimately related to gene manipulation, and it is possible the two technologies could merge, especially with plants & microorganisms.

#3 - One might consider ex-vivo cloning of tissue and individual organs for transplantation. There would be huge benefits of clonal organs/tissue to medicine.

#4 - At some point we may choose cloning to restore threatened, or even extinct species, obviously bringing many issues with these choices.

#5 - The biggest fear that people have is that cloning will be used for HUMAN cloning. How vain would it be to create a "mini-me"? I have no doubt it will eventually happen somewhere. But, since it is all too easy for a man and woman to have a "shared" child, I doubt the practice would ever be widespread.

And, if one takes a biological approach to life, it really should not be an issue. Life becomes the new organism that develops in a woman's womb, then grows through experience throughout life.

Yes, there is the temptation to "tinker" a bit, and perhaps that should be a bigger concern than cloning.

Answer 2

Human cloning should, excpet to clone organs and body parts but never a whole person, even if we could, that is just wrong. Cloning animals should be allowed, especially food animals like cows and pigs etc... We should make more twins. Cloning is wrong, because if you clone on human then that leads to cloning more people, and can create world caos

Answer 3

Cloning will enhance our research of alien life further we are not trying to play god. That is matter of opinion. Some people believe that further research on cloning could be very beneficial. Others think it is wrong and we should not "play God" and have that much power.

Answer 4

Even naturally produced human beings have many flaws, the burden of which the particular individual has to bear till death. If Science can not see a soul in a man, it is a blind science unfit for this world and so, shall not be permitted to go on. Humans have emotions and feelings which differentiate man from machines. The goodness of this world rests on emotions and feelings. Father, mother, grandparents, brothers, sisters, friends, neighbours- such emotions and feelings are what sustained human life on earth in the face of calamities from time immemorial. A great many scientists and researchers in the past generations have landed on far better and greater discoveries than this cloning, but they chose to remain silent, considering the wickedness of their inventions. It is known that the most famous Cavendish suppressed many many more than he revealed, for the same reason. But now Scientists are not anymore philosophers and they can not wait patiently like their majestic predecessors. They are exhilerated by fame, money, profit and greed, the very vices which all the philosophers in this world condemned and loathed. Any one could have cloned human beings in the past, but they were not fools. They were wise and they loved mankind. Science does not have any exceptional privilege to destroy the world with another evil like the atom bomb.

Answer 5

no it shouldn't be encouraged. i say it shouldn't because if it is then there will be more and more people doing it and the world would get to crowded unlike it already is!

Answer 6

If free speech is of value, yes.