Human Cloning: Is It Ethical?

             The amazing advances in technologies and sciences today are mind-boggling. Humans have stepped foot on the moon, they can save each other from physical trauma in a wide array of ways, they can separate atoms into smaller quarks, and they have found medicine for multiple sicknesses and diseases. There are computers today that are millions times faster than what they were thirty years ago. Is there anything that humans cannot do? Some say that humans cannot prevent death, while advocates of human cloning see otherwise. Are they on the brink of immortality? Can there really be cures to "incurable" diseases such as cancer? Is the use of true human embryos the answer to all the questions of life? Could humans never have to lose another great leader or celebrity to death? In any case, playing "God" with human genetics and life is simply not ethical or morally right. Cloning should never under any circumstances be condoned.
             First, the mental burden on the clone would be enormous. The clone would be expected to do at least as well in life as the original. The original would almost always overshadow the clone. The clone would have no originality at all, or the dignity of being an individual. These two ideals are the basis of what separates us and gives us the will to live. What would the physic burden of being a "copy" of another? The clone to the world would be shunned and have no individuality.(Leon R. Kass)
             Second, today, when a mother and father come together to conceive a child, they are in essence accepting and acknowledging the finitude and mortality of human life. They are taking it upon themselves to replace themselves with a child and realizing the limits of their control. When a human is cloned, the process of conceiving as God planned it becomes obsolete. When humans are looking for immortality, and are actually manufacturing a clone, not just creating life. Scie
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