Clones?

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Do you ever wish you could see yourself for what you truly are? To be able to meet yourself, see how you act, see how you communicate, or maybe simply just what type of person you are? Now think, what if you could actually do that? Science has now come to a revolutionary state in which we are able to clone organisms, but we aren’t advanced enough to clone humans yet. However, there is no question that we will be able to clone humans one day, the only problem is, would we want to? Despite how wonderful it seems to meet and be able to get to know you, the practice of cloning human beings has many ethical, societal, and environmental drawbacks.
Human nature is built on the foundation of morals, integrity and ethics, therefore we must protect the last shred of innocence us humans possess using strict guidelines called “Human Rights”. If we were able to clone human beings, would our clones be considered human beings? Considering the fact that the clones will possess every quality of a human being, they should be subjected to human rights as well. However, though they contain the qualities of a human being, they also contain genetic information that came from one specific person. If that genetic information belongs to that one specific person, the clone would belong to that one specific person. If the clone belongs to another human being, that would directly conflict with human rights because the clones no longer have the right to be free. To state it in a simpler form, they are simply slaves to their genetic owners. Being under one’s ownership would decrease the value of ones life. Given that the clones would be put under ownership, they no longer practice the right of freedom, and they are no longer equal to any other human being. C...

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...hics for the practice of cloning human beings to be considered a resplendent idea. Furthermore, not only does cloning a human being bring ethical problems, it brings societal, as well as environmental problem as well. As you can see for those who have a malevolent mindset, it could easily be used as a weapon. Even in the simple goal of prolonging one’s life with another’s, the use of integrity, moral, and ethics are slowly eradicated. The problems that would arise from the practice of cloning human beings highly outweigh the number of benefits that come with the practice of cloning human beings. Ultimately, I believe that we should just stop the idea of cloning human beings because, as was expressed by the character Ian Malcolm, in Jurassic Park so well, “… your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

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