The ethics of cloning have become increasingly debated as scientists become more educated and information is more readily available to the public. Because everyone has different beliefs and morals, the controversy draws ... be significantly reduced"(geocities.com). Hypothetically, if human beings do get cloned, due to the fact a clone is genetically identical, the clones would have the same vulnerabilities to disease and environmental effects. Psychologically, the circumstance corrupts moral values as it "refutes the concept of genetic determinism, which assumes that genes alone are responsi...

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Cloning, as of recent years, has become a very controversial issue. Society is firmly divided on the uses and ethics of cloning. Cloning can rang from producing copies of plants and animals to clones of humans and human organs. But cloning can have ... stricken Third World nations. Fruits and vegetables can be cloned to produce large amounts of food without have to worry about growing season, climate, or any other environmental factor. They can also be altered to be able to be grown in different environments or to produce more food and for a longer period of time. ... kidney failures. This w...

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... these ideas are precisely what bother many people. During world war two, the Nazis implemented a program of eugenics with the aim of eliminating undesirables from the human gene pool. Setting ethics aside, from a purely biological point of view, when you begin to artificially manipulate the gene pool by cloning, you may lower diversity and place the population at an increased risk ... for death on a large scale because of environmental changes. Another two doctors who still want to clone human beings are Dr Severino Antinori and Dr Panayiotis Zavos. Dr Antinori said cloning may be consi...

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