Frankenstein

            Frankenstein, one of Mary Shelley's novels, tells a story of Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who defies nature by creating a monster with dead body parts. In this time period Mary Shelley wrote when the difficult sciences were still considered a part of philosophy, but were rapidly developed into their own type of science. Yet in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein there is a strong message that shows her concern about where to draw the line when it comes to sciences and ethical boundaries. Shelley's novel is simply a mere warning about playing god (creating a human being without a woman.)
             Although, Shelley's novel only consist of one main example of scientific ethics. In the real world today, there are tons and tons of situations where ethics comes into play. Human beings do not know all of the answers to all the questions, and who is to say what is considered right and what is considered wrong. One of the more popular ethical problems today is cloning, who is to say cloning should be legal, but on the other hand who is to say it should be illegal? Human technology has advanced so rapidly, we are exploring different bioethics everyday.
            
             Cloning is ethically and morally wrong. There is a question that terrifies some people to their soul. And that is for us humans to consider the cloning of each other makes everybody question the very concepts of right and wrong. The cloning of any species is morally wrong, even if it isn't a human being. The possible damages cloning could do is quite obvious; just take a look of the loss of life that occurred before the birth of Dolly. Less than ten percent of the initial transfers survive to be healthy creatures. There were 277 trial implants of the brain of creatures. Only nineteen of those 277 were said to be healthy while the others were just discarded. Five of those nineteen survived, but four of them died within ten days of birth of sever abnormalities. Dolly was the only on...

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