Monday, October 22, 2007

Cloning is immoral

There are many point of view about the morality of cloning. But, on our group's opinion, we think that cloning is totally immoral and yet inhuman. The purpose of cloning is to create a better quality of new organism. Therefore, clone is just an experimental product produce using machine and some chemicals by human. Imagine that you are born in a test tube and raise up by using machine and chemicals. Cloning is totally an act of immorality. Furthermore, clone exist in this world is just to fulfill the needs of the normal human being. What will the clone think when they found out that their existent in this world is just as a experiment specimen, or just because of their organ, or as a tool for normal human? A clone is just like a normal human, because they can think and do and has the same thought as normal human. So, we try to imagine that we reverse the situation where normal human are to be treated as a tool or a product that can be sold or as a specimen for experiment. If we really come to think about it and analyse what a clone might think, we will start to feel and discover that cloning is really inhuman and immoral. A clone is an exact replica of the original. A clone can talk, eat, drink and sleep Just like normal human being. Moreover, it can also think and probably better than the original host. It would be totally inhumane and immoral to treat these clones as animals because they are of free will. If humans can be cloned, then that makes them property to which that the clone can be sold as a slave, or experiment specimen to improve the cloning technology or just for their organ. Of course, the selling other humans is unethical, inhuman, and definitely immoral. For example, in 1991, a 19-year-old girl name Anissa Ayala suffering from leukemia and must undergo a bone marrow transplant in order to survive. Luckily, her 13-month-old sister, Marissa, was the suitable bone marrow donor for her. While Marissa still in her mother uterus, physicians analyzed Marissa's tissue and found out that she would be an acceptable and suitable donor for her older sister. There is a similar moral issue question regarding the cloning. What if her sister’s tissues are not suitable for her sister? Would she have been aborted? It seems like the motive for conceiving a child is to produce organ or tissue for another child. With the cloning technology, imagine that more human can be clone and harvest their organ and destroy the remainder. It is definitely immoral.

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