John Stuart Mill Essay

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A clone is a genetic replica of a cell, plant, and animal. One may ask what the controversy on this topic is or why is this topic important? The supporters of cloning see many reasons to continue and develop this form of creating children. Supporters believe everyone should have the right to have a child and cloning will help with certain conditions requiring transplants or rid humans of certain diseases. Arguments against the process of cloning believe the process is dangerous and that morally we should not create individuals with the same genetic material as another. In relation, John Stuart Mills believed in utilitarianism which overall is happiness for the greatest number of people based on utility. With Mills’ ideals of utility or the …show more content…

Also, how do you know what decision to follow if both choices create happiness? Mills answers the first question with “by happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.” As for which decision creates the most happiness, Mills answers with “of two pleasures, if there be one to which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.” Now let’s explore how this supports …show more content…

When a person gets sick or has chronic pain this is not happiness in accordance to Mills’ theory because of the involvement of pain. Cloning can also solve this issue in many ways. First, Tooley states “genetic constitution has bearing on how long one is likely to live, on what diseases, both physical and mental, one is likely to suffer from. ” My grandfather suffers from severe Alzheimer. The pain he feels from not remembering and the pain I feel because I can not help him, breaks my heart. I wish I could take the pain away from him so, he could live his final years happy. With cloning and genetic engineering this issue could be

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