Human Clone Ethics

ethical/moral discussion. All of a sudden, it appeared that
             science fiction was now reality. A sheep, being a mammal, was pretty close
             to human. If this weird means of asexual reproduction of an entire mammal
             worked, how long before it was applied to humans' People feared all
             scientists would be clones of the great ones, all basketball players would
             be Michael Jordan clones or similar, except younger. What these people
             failed to remember, Shannon notes, is that two individuals who share a
             genetic identity-identical twins, for exampleâ€"does not mean they are the
             same person. They also maintain their individual dignity. It also
             elevates genetics to the level of an absolute, rendering useless the age-
             old debate about whether a person's life choices are influenced most by
             genetics or environment. (Shannon, 111) Shannon further notes that holding
             such positions denies any transcendent dimension, for which he seems to
             mean spirituality or divine life forc
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