13 March 2008

Sorry, Marta!

We all know that every day scientists are discovering something new and though we have now a great and developed knowledge about all kinds of things, there is so much yet to be discovered and developed. One of them is cloning. But, to what extent can we say that cloning is good or bad?
The roll of arguments for is endless. Many scientists try to support their cloning intents with the fact that cloning can help us develop methods to treat genetic diseases. There would be so many advantages with cloning because it might lead to an extension of our knowledge and to an improvement on medicine.
On the other hand, there are too many ethical concerns surrounding this subject. The greatest part of the people against are concerned with the thought that we may be creating human copies just for their spare parts, forgetting that these copies are human as well, and even though they were not supposed to have feelings, they do. Clones have a soul too! For that reason, killing clones for their spare parts and without their consent is illegal, a crime, and furthermore it’s inhuman.We can’t forget, as well, that there are other types of cloning besides the human’. We could clone animals for their meat. Then we may be able to end with famine all over the world. But how can we know for sure that the meat will be good for consumption?As we see, cloning is a very debated topic nowadays and there is still too much to discuss. I believe that we will be able to recreate organs, so we won’t need to clone all the human body for its spare parts. I also believe that we could gain a lot with (the general concept of) cloning. I just don’t believe that we should give priority to this process when we still don’t know how to cure Aids and cancer.On the other hand, there are too many ethical concerns about this subject. Most people against are concerned with the thought that we may be creating human copies just for their spare parts, forgetting that these copies are human as well, and even though they were not supposed to have feelings, they do. Clones have a soul too! For that reason, killing clones for their spare parts and without their consent is illegal, a crime, and furthermore it’s inhuman.
We can’t forget either that there are other types of cloning besides human cloning. We could clone animals for their meat. Then we might be able to end with famine all over the world. But how can we know for sure that the meat will be good for consumption?
As we see, cloning is a very debated topic nowadays and there is still too much to discuss. I believe that we will be able to recreate organs, so we won’t need to clone all the human body for its spare parts. I also believe that we could gain a lot with (the general concept of) cloning. I just don’t believe that we should give priority to this process when we still don’t know how to cure Aids and cancer.

Marta Ferreira 1107

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