Cloning

y disagree ("Cloning Supporters" 3). Tolerance means both agreeing to disagree and accepting the challenge of sustaining a community where moral authority will, to some extent, always be contested.
             Many people have different views of what is and what is not natural (Will A-8). Out of one thousand people polled, forty-eight percent of them believe that cloning is unnatural (Misterpoll 1). Due to the fact that clones originate from a single fertilized egg should make that cloned person natural ("Cloning Supporters" 3).
             Since most people have visions of Dr. Frankenstein creating life from inanimate matter they are not getting all the facts straight ("Cloning Supporters" 3). Cloning creates life from life. The true definition of cloning is the production of one or more individual living things that is genetically identical to the living thing that was cloned ("Ethical Aspects of Human Cloning" 7).
             Another issue that has come up about whether it is ethical to clone is the question of how a cloned person would act. Since a cloned person would be an exact replica of the original person he or she would be very similar physically and should be alike mentally (Wilmut 75). On the other hand his or her personality comes from genes, social influences, and how they were brought up (Wilmut 74). Because of this the cloned child's personality would be completely different from the original person, unless he or she was raised in the exact same environment.
             "Genes are not destiny, but that will not stop people from thinking that human cloning needs to be stopped before it starts" (Mario 3). If this were the case, as Smith sees it "a cloned Hitler might turn out to be a very nice guy (Mario 4)." Since it can not be proven that genes are not desti
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