Human Awareness Essay on Cloni
Human Awareness Essay on CloniHuman Awareness Essay on Cloning
There are many controversial topics around the world today, and some of them include such topics as abortion, drugs, the death penalty, alcohol, guns, and now even cloning. Surrounding these issues we can find differing opinions, and positions in how people feel about such topics in our community. Many of these arguments, can be narrowed down to two different views, there are those who put forward their own individual point of view and those who put forward what they think is best for the community. An individualistic viewpoint stresses the rights of the individual as a unique being, and shows what they believe and feel bout certain things. A communitarian viewpoint is more concerned with the good for the greatest number.
The discovery of cloning can be both beneficial and harmful to society. There are many reasonable methods of cloning, and offcourse many different opinions on what we should use this technology for and who should have the authority to use cloning towards society�s benefit. Cloning is done by taking the genetic information from a person so that a clone may be made and placing the genetic information into an egg which has had the nucleus removed. This now becomes a zygote, which is then placed in a uterus of a woman, and the zygote will became a clone of the person.
What I am trying to put forward or pose as a question is should cloning become a world wide act preformed in all doctors surgeries or should it be controlled and watched very closely by government or other authorities and used under tight restrictions.
While the potential benefits of genetic engineering are considerable, so may be the potential dangers. For instance, the use of cloning for medical purposes can be helpful by creating new body parts or organs, due to the shortage of donors, this could become a valuable asset. Cloning body parts can also be harmful if it gets into the wrong hands. So should cloning be controlled by the government to the extent that there is no possible way it will be misused.
Now with the cloning of mammals possible, the question is changed from weather or not we could clone humans, but weather or not we should. Firstly I would like to say that I strongly disagree with the use of cloning for the purpose of parents �choosing� their child. By simply producing characteristics to the parents needs society would be pointless. Everyone in the world would be walking around looking like famous starts like Marilyn Monroe and everyone would be made to look beautiful. I cant imagine too many parents choosing their child to look ugly. Society would be dull and boring because everyone would be the same.
Cloning will certainly expand the scope of medicine greatly, thus enhance the possibilities of conquering diseases such as AID�S, cancer and other diseases that were earlier considered incurable....
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