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Human Cloning: Should it be allowed?

 

             Take a Christmas cactus plant, pinch off a segmented leaf, and put that segmented leaf into a cup of water. Wait a few days, and voila! You have a new plant. This secret method of growing plants has been around for years. And guess what? It is called cloning. Even though this particular example is a nonharmful method of plants, I believe that human cloning will have a benefical use for humans.
             First,let's rediscover the arguments that cloning is against the Will of God. True, cloning conjures up horrific scenes of the Doctor giving life to Frankenstein from inanimate tissue of dead corpses. However, cloning really "creats life from life," not dead tissue. Also, religions that base their doctrines on scriptural text face the problem that nowhere in the Bible, the Qur'an, Talmud, or the Sutras does it say, "Thou shalt not splice DNA' or 'It is thy destiny to clone". One can find opposition in the Bible, even when it comes to deciding what to do. It can ask humans to not act like God, and it can also remind humans to "replenish the earth and subdue it". So the argument that cloning is agaist God's will has no foundation. Antoer argument says that clones of humans would not "real" people. Now, the clone would resemble the person whose DNA he was cloned from, but the two would otherwise be unrecongnizable; "he will be a unique human being, with a completely unique consciousness and a unique set of memories that he will build from scratch." To actually treat a cloned human unequally and disrespectfully would be rather like discriminating against someone because of their gender or race nowadays. Why discriminate against someone based on the way their parents decided to conceive them? .
            


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