Romantics of the nineteenth century believed that not all sciences are beneficial to man; when one strays from morality and scientific method, the effects are damaging. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein exemplified this belief: science, though not inherently deleterious, becomes injurious when ethica...

Speaking Outline: Animal TestingSpecific Purpose: To persuade my audience about the three major ways of how scientific experiments on animal is inhumane.IntroductionI.Put yourself into an animal's position. Imagine that you are being poked and probed by needles for the benefits of humans.II.Anima...

"It is possible to commit an immoral act against a non-human animals."In order to commit an immoral act against a non-human animal, one must define the word "morality". According to the definition it means conformity to the rules of right conduct,. On the other hand immorality means wickedness or ...

Animals should be used in Psychological Research as long as the benefits of the experiments outweigh the cruelty imposed upon the animals. While there is obviously ample gray area as to what should be considered a sufficient scientific benefit, two mindsets are generally taken concerning the justifi...

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 multip...

On February 24, 1997, scientists at the Roslin Institute in Edinburg, England announced that they had cloned an adult mammal for the first time. This was just one of many blind leaps in science that humanity has made. As we race forward in our decisions to create life, we neglect to look at the cons...

"Cloning", a term traditionally used by scientists to describe different processes for duplicating biological material. The possibility of human cloning raised when Scottish scientists at Roslin Institute created the much-celebrated sheep "Dolly". On February 27, 1997, Roslin Institute in Scotland ...

Let's Make the World a No-Clone Zone "Let's Make the World a No-Clone Zone" is a very straightforward and powerful article which lists many reasons why anything and everything about cloning should be illegal. In her article Therese M. Lysaught acknowledges there is plenty of f...

First Contact The topic of ethics has been around since the understanding that science needs to be a testable discipline. In order for a theory to be counted as relevant in science it must be falsifiable, meaning it must be able to be proved wrong. This is where ethics come in. A scientist mus...

Of all the medical advancements mankind has created, nothing is more remarkable, and controversial, than human cloning. Late February 1997 the world was stunned that a British embryologist named Ian Wilmut and his research team had successfully cloned a lamb named Dolly from an adult sheep. Replacin...

In this essay I intend to explore the ethical implications of developing genetically modified plants and analyse if the advantages out-weigh the disadvantages. However before I start to discuss the ethical implications of this type of work it is first necessary to clarify exactly what is meant by 'e...

Upon reading Michael Crichton's famous Jurassic Park, there were things that sparked me that the movie didn't. This paper, though, is not to compare the movie from the book, but to analyze the ethics behind the making of Jurassic Park. Was it right or wrong for Hammond to make this dangerous "amus...

Cloning is an issue that touches upon the most profound ethical issues. If humans even consider cloning each other then they should revise what is morally and ethically right and wrong. The cloning of any species, whether it's human or non-human is by all means wrong. Denmark's Minister of Research ...