[Discussion] What Makes Human Cloning Unethical?

[Pavoneo]

Now, before you guys start to think about the question at hand.. Let me inform you about what cloning really is.

A majority of us probably perceive cloning to occur like they do in sci-fi movies and other variations, where a person is cloned and two minutes later there's a full grown man/woman (who's a clone) standing before the original. That's not how it happens at all.

In reality, cloning happens very differently. The clone went through a very different process. Instead of coming out a full grown human, it goes through the normal procedures any human would go through. Meaning that it'd stay in the mothers womb for 9 months and be born as a baby, not an adult.

Now, the clone does have very minor differences with an original when it comes to genetics. Such as different fingerprints or freckle patterns, the small stuff, but there's one major thing that sets apart a clone and an original. Experiences through life, that sets up how either the clone or original think and go about situations and blah blah, you understand the rest.

So what makes cloning exactly unethical? Note: My information on the specifics could easily be wrong, but hopefully you're understanding the general concept. (Have fun reading all of this >:3)

 

[ShishaMastah420]

Nothing.

Cloning isn't unethical; Religious bigots just simply want to hinder Science because of the influence/power Science is gaining as apposed to Religion in which influence/power is greatly decreasing.

 

[AP2k]

Pavoneos back!!

I don't understand how it's unethical, what has a clone ever done to anyone? I don't know if it's some religious taboo or something but i can't see a negative to it. Unless it becomes like the gholas in Dune and they start to awaken memories from the original person and become a perfect human being, that'd be bad.

 

[RoguePatriot]

I honestly don't see the point of it.

 

[fati]

what's the fun of creating the same person again
diversity is what make us human

 

[narutorikudoumode]

it woudn't be right its like having someone who has the same personality as you
think about this if you died and the scientist made a clone of you how would you think your mother react well if i was her i couldn't look at the person the same way i looked at the original its like a copy but their would be always something thats strange about the clone since you and the clone are the same person

 

[Tilia]

It is an experiment, so such a person would be observed his whole life.

 

[AP2k]

it woudn't be right its like having someone who has the same personality as you
think about this if you died and the scientist made a clone of you how would you think your mother react well if i was her i couldn't look at the person the same way i looked at the original its like a copy but their would be always something thats strange about the clone since you and the clone are the same person

A clone would almost definetly have a different personality, they would be different people with the same DNA

 

[Jack Spicer]

I don't think it's un-ethical. I say go for it.

 

[SandVillageShinobi]

Not unethical, but it is pretty pointless. Let people come out how they come out.

 

[Ashflura]

Is it unethical? The invention and idea is pretty cool, but right now I think there's money and funds needed to be spent elsewhere. I know some cloning research is used to create possible organs, biotechnology, for people in the future to help with people suffering diseases. I think it's perfectly fine in that motive, but replicating people...the world's kinda overpopulated already...

 

[Tilia]

There are some opinions, why it is unethical. For instance:

The possible creation of a human being through cloning raises many ethical concerns. It constitutes unethical experimentation on a child-to-be, subjecting him or her to enormous risks of bodily and developmental abnormalities. It threatens human individuality, deliberately saddling the clone with the genetic makeup of a person who has already lived. It risks making women's bodies a commodity, with women being paid to undergo risky drug treatment so they will produce the many eggs that are needed for cloning.

The reasons people give to justify human cloning are:
To help infertile couples have children and
To replace a deceased child


I think, that such option would be available only for rich people, which would lead to much more differentiation among people. The reasons for human cloning are, from my point of view, to earn money and not to help people.

Of course, cloning stem cells for research is something completely different, and I support this idea as it is big advance in biotechnology.

 

[Supermacaquecool]

hum! I think it may unethical due the clones may be used to do experiments with Stem cells for the sake of the person who's already alive. If it is with this purpose, I say yes go ahead.
But if it is to help infertile couples have children and to replace a deceased child, I say no. That does not help medicine much, but business. Also, this world is highly overpopulated...why more ppl?

 

[Shinobi Train]

Depends if you're atheist or theist. Atheistically, there's nothing wrong with it, but it's still pretty pointless. Theistically, it's creating a soulless body, and messing with genetics is strictly forbidden to begin with.

 

[BMN]

Cloning already exists. Technically, cloning has existed as long as life forms have existed. Identical twins? Clones of each other. Exact same DNA. Is it unethical to give birth to twins? are they exactly the same? NO. and NO. My best friend has two little brothers who are identical twins. They're normal monstrous children who run around and love to have fun and cause trouble.
And besides, cloning an entire person who already exists is not worth the effort. Because when they are born, their DNA has aged as long as the 'original' has been alive. So clones don't last very long, especially if the original is older than a child at the time of cloning. Cloning in the medical field applies to organs or body tissue that can be grown independently so that 1. and organ can be replaced easily with no rejection, 2. a donor is not needed.

 

[1337Boy]

The thing is that people will make clones into an entirely different race. They will be labelled as clones for the rest of their lives. Society would never accept them and if there was a complication... A human's life is at stake.

 

[GeniusStyleUser]

i feel like if we were to create clones...they would just be used as tools.
reminds me of what Hitler did with all of his work trying to find the "master race". he would get the people with the best genes and have them have a kid, so that kid would have the best genes possible for his armies lol.
thats exactly what this is, except you dont even need people to like each other anymore.
i see more harm than good coming from anything like this.

 

[indie]

I don't find it either ethical or unethical I just don't see the point in doing it.