Human Cloning

exileshadow · 07-23-2008, 07:25 AM

Should human cloning be banned ? Should reproductive human cloning always be prohibited?

Cloning is playing God. It is not merely intervention in the body’s natural processes, but the creation of a new and wholly unnatural process of asexual reproduction. Clerics within the Catholic, Moslem and Jewish faiths have all expressed their opposition to human cloning.However, this objection to cloning is not specifically theological. David Hume, the eighteenth-century Scottish moral philosopher, warned us to heed our feelings as much as our logical reasoning. Leon R. Kass of the University of Chicago has stated in relation to human cloning, that mere failure to produce scientific reasons against the technology, does not mean we should deny our strong and instinctive reactions to it. As he states, there is a "wisdom in repugnance".

Reproductive cloning harms the integrity of the family. Single people will be able to produce offspring without even the physical presence of a partner. Once born, the child will be denied the love of one parent, most probably the father. Several theologians have recognised that a child is a symbolic expression of the mutual love of its parents, and their hope for the future. This sign of love is lost when a child’s life begins in a laboratory.

Jak · 07-23-2008, 08:24 AM

i agree with all, accept the part where you say: "Cloning is playing God" , you don't know if god exists so that wouldn't be true.

hesham8 · 07-27-2008, 02:40 AM

God is a fictional story. However, Jak, the "Playing God" expression is just that: an expression.

Anyway, I think we should be more concerned about reducing the population before we begin cloning. Honestly, the human population is out of control, and if we could eliminate a good portion (Oh, eliminating 60% would be good for us), we'd be better off. It may sound cruel, but it's really what the world needs. Our population is on the limits of out of control. According to my research, we could sustain roughly 13 billion people on Earth, assuming we find an alternative fuel (ethanol is worse for the environment than natural gas will ever be) and alternative electricity sources (i.e, not coal or fossil fuels).

Seeing that the world is embracing ethanol as an alternative fuel, that number will actually be much smaller. Ethanol, as I"m sure you all know comes from organic material. However, in growing ethanol and harvesting land, we actually release all of the CO2 in the area that we're using for our harvest. At the rate we're cutting down forests for "ethanol farms", we will double the amount of CO2 and other GHGs released into the environment in 2023.

All of this plays a role in how much life Earth can sustain. We don't know how much it can sustain to the dot because the factors are constantly shifting. The sooner we impose laws that limit the amount of children you can have the better. We only need enough children to sustain the population, not make it increase.

**Storm** · 07-27-2008, 02:44 AM

Yeah, lets ban cloning, oh yeah, ban reproduction while we're at it.

**LobBob** · 08-04-2008, 05:51 AM

Banning Cloning would be great, but not reproduction, otherwise, there wouldn't be anymore fun left.

Clear · 08-09-2008, 03:45 PM

I think cloning should be banned because if someone cloned me I wouldnt like it and they might take advantage of me.

07-23-2008, 07:25 AM	#1 (permalink)
exileshadow Junior Member+ Join Date: Jul 2008 Age: 13 Posts: 46 My Mood: Points: 24.00 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 24.00 Donate	Human Cloning Should human cloning be banned ? Should reproductive human cloning always be prohibited? Cloning is playing God. It is not merely intervention in the body’s natural processes, but the creation of a new and wholly unnatural process of asexual reproduction. Clerics within the Catholic, Moslem and Jewish faiths have all expressed their opposition to human cloning.However, this objection to cloning is not specifically theological. David Hume, the eighteenth-century Scottish moral philosopher, warned us to heed our feelings as much as our logical reasoning. Leon R. Kass of the University of Chicago has stated in relation to human cloning, that mere failure to produce scientific reasons against the technology, does not mean we should deny our strong and instinctive reactions to it. As he states, there is a "wisdom in repugnance". Reproductive cloning harms the integrity of the family. Single people will be able to produce offspring without even the physical presence of a partner. Once born, the child will be denied the love of one parent, most probably the father. Several theologians have recognised that a child is a symbolic expression of the mutual love of its parents, and their hope for the future. This sign of love is lost when a child’s life begins in a laboratory.

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07-23-2008, 08:24 AM	#2 (permalink)
Jak ForumzPlanet Registered Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Hueco Mundo Posts: 444 My Mood: Points: 168.01 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 168.01 Donate	i agree with all, accept the part where you say: "Cloning is playing God" , you don't know if god exists so that wouldn't be true.

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hesham8 Junior Member+ Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 69 Points: 13.00 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 13.00 Donate	God is a fictional story. However, Jak, the "Playing God" expression is just that: an expression. Anyway, I think we should be more concerned about reducing the population before we begin cloning. Honestly, the human population is out of control, and if we could eliminate a good portion (Oh, eliminating 60% would be good for us), we'd be better off. It may sound cruel, but it's really what the world needs. Our population is on the limits of out of control. According to my research, we could sustain roughly 13 billion people on Earth, assuming we find an alternative fuel (ethanol is worse for the environment than natural gas will ever be) and alternative electricity sources (i.e, not coal or fossil fuels). Seeing that the world is embracing ethanol as an alternative fuel, that number will actually be much smaller. Ethanol, as I"m sure you all know comes from organic material. However, in growing ethanol and harvesting land, we actually release all of the CO2 in the area that we're using for our harvest. At the rate we're cutting down forests for "ethanol farms", we will double the amount of CO2 and other GHGs released into the environment in 2023. All of this plays a role in how much life Earth can sustain. We don't know how much it can sustain to the dot because the factors are constantly shifting. The sooner we impose laws that limit the amount of children you can have the better. We only need enough children to sustain the population, not make it increase.

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Clear Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: earth Posts: 162 My Mood: Points: 1,964.89 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 1,964.89 Donate	I think cloning should be banned because if someone cloned me I wouldnt like it and they might take advantage of me.

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