It is a common scene in the science fiction movie genre of the possibility of clones. There are a handful of modern movies that deal with this issue in some form or another, but it is treated as a far-off fantasy concept. The truth of the matter is that many advances in cloning are taking place now and people may have already lost the luxury of letting another generation deal with it. The issue forcing itself into society no matter how hard people try not to think about it. The reason for this is the controversy behind it that rivals any problem that ethics have ever faced. While scientific advantages are numerous, religious or even ethics will fight to the death against it. Such an issue is extreme enough to be an “end-all, be-all” concept.
I intend to show that cloning can never be used. While there are a handful of advantages to it, such as having an unlimited supply of human organs and blood for medical use and medical advances, the faults are too great to ignore. The most prominent problem would be that we live in a religious world and cloning is not acceptable in many if any religious beliefs. But even outside of this, the amount of people in the world is steadily increasing as is, and cloning would only add to this. It could potentially be used as a WMD as far as cloning on a mass scale. Armies could be made from scratch.
This will be read by my classmates, who will hopefully enjoy my paper and possibly understand how cloning is not and will never be a possibility.
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Justin,
just as I said when we talked after class, make sure you approach the problem of cloning as a CURRENT ISSUE. That is, what do we know and thus can discuss today about the scientific, ethical and religious consequences of stem-cell research? You need to narrow your scope to what is debatable and can be explored by you in the here and now.
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