Cloning

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I think it would be great is we could clone organs,blood etc, but to clone something that lives?... I just don't approve of that.

 

What you are saying is the storyline of the movie The Island...
xD
But no, we don't need clones.

 

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Why would we clone people, just for organs??? I don't think it'll be cool if we just store them, I mean, if they're gonna be clones of us, they'll have feelings, and a brain right. Why do we need them anyway???

 

why would we want to clone somebody? i mean, think about it:
the clone would have to go their whole life knowing that they're not their own person.
how would you feel if you had to live like that??

 

I would approve of cloning for organs as long as they are kept in captivity or pods for 'cold storage' so that they would never know the reason for why they exist, also so that nobody has to tell them 'Hi! Your a clone!'.

 

Medically and to the advancement of technology, I say yes to it. It can give us an easier way of fighting against organ donning(sp?), like you said.


But I disagree on a simple level, though. One is that this is a rather nasty procedure to go through, since we could have way more than we need to keep up for future use. For example, what if in 100 years we have many of these clones, and then we figure out we have NO WHERE to put them? Or even dispose of them?

That is one of the things that is concerned with this, unfortunately. And I agree that it is very bad for us.


Another thing is the morality of this. I find it quite paining to do it and it does not seem right to some extent. However, morality can't be mixed with scientific experimentation. It defeats the purpose of it and without this, we wouldn't even be alive today.

- Because it would have been likely genetic error and virus intrusion could have been a contribution to extinction without scientific exp.

 

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Actually, there are "Body Harvesting" camps that are in existence that--like the name suggests--produces bodies for the sole purpose of creating organs expected to be used for donations in the future.

These manufactured bodies do not contain heads or brains, however, so the debate about a person 'knowing they exist' is in part, not applicable in this sense. However, there are other moral issues to be debated by this "Body Harvesting" idea on its own, and since this can also encompass the morality behind cloning in itself, it's all the more important to consider.

First of all, in most controversial cases, the problem lies not so much in the individual action (since there may always be a very specific circumstance that may for some reason or another, condone a choice that would've generally been considered 'immoral') but in the effect that choice may have on society. The 'slippery slope' argument is valid in the case of cloning because although these camps are successful in creating consciousness, brainless bodies that will never be able to feel pain or have a sense of self, social fragmentation will somehow desensitize humanity on the value of the human body.

If body-harvesting became such a common trend, it's not a hard thing to hypothesize that several decades down the road, the idea that the 'human body' is individual and should be cherished by one's own self becomes a fleeting concept.

 

i don't see anything wrong with cloning. but it IS wrong to use them as organ factories. u can't just steal someone's organs to give them to someone else, that's wrong. clones are ppl too and have just as many rights as "real" people.

 

Cloning just for organs is sick, if we have the technology to make a new person, why not just use it to store the dead so that if we need an organ we have a library of people perfectly willing to contribute to the cause