Cloning

Cloning

If you had a chance to clone yourself right now, would you? Some people may favor cloning when they first think about it because it would be an amazing experience to meet yourself but it is a major risk for the society to take. There are still many thought and testing that is needed before the world is ready for cloning. There may be some positive affects to cloning humans, but there are far too many opposing factors in this situation. Cloning humans is ambiguous and abnormal; therefore, cloning humans should be illegal.

If cloning humans would be legal, there would be crime. If people started to make clones, then everyone would want a clone of themselves. So if the original person gets hurt or injured, he or she could take an organ from their clone. This would end up death for the poor clone. This would be crime because the clone is a human being and it can think like any other humans. Thus, a clone is a normal person and is no different from anyone else. Killing a clone would be the same as killing an ordinary person. Cloning is morally wrong.

It also wouldn't be fair for the clone. A clone isn't any different from his duplicate. A regular person has all the rights in which it is written on the constitution. A clone would be a part of humanity. The genetic copy wouldn't have any real parents or

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life. A clone would live in a cage, science lab, without a normal child or adulthood. It would be better off for the clone to die rather than living a life where he or she is being tormented.

Overpopulation would occur if creating a clone would be legal. If people create a large amount of clones, there would be a hard time controlling them. If not treated properly, they could start to protest against creation of other clones. They can fight against people who made them and encourage the experiment of getting control over them. If they are not kept in cages or labs, there can be confusion to who really is who. Clones could pretend to be their original and could do dreadful things that can make the original look bad. For example if a criminal gets caught, he could send his clone to jail instead of him. Someone could make a copy of the president and order the clone to do something outrageous such as declaring war with other countries. As you can see, cloning could get bizarre if not dealt correctly.

Henry David Thoreau from the short story "Civil Disobedience" states not to do any harm to others. This can be linked to cloning because it would be unethical to harm clones. Since living things are human, clones can't just be killed. The law states that no U.S. citizen shall be deprived of life without proper cause. I think Thoreau would be against cloning because it will be opposing his statement which is not to do any harm. He would feel cloning is morally and ethically wrong because making clones is basically harming and torturing them. Clones wouldn't have the same privilege as a normal human. They would be living in cages and be experimented on. Clones would be the

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same as being slaves. I agree with Thoreau's rule because it is common sense not to