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Cloning - School Essays

Cloning

According to Professor Wilmut of the Monash Mecical Center, "Creating a clone though these new methods calls into question our most sacred fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind or people-to make our childrean ojects rather then individuals". This statement compels me and my partner to affirm; resolved: is not justified. I will now go on to my contentions.
FIRST CONTENTION
Our first contention is that the of humans is immoral and unethically disturbing. The of humans would ...

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being unique. If you were to make a copy of a human, you would not be treating that child as an individual. While many people want to be cloned, nobody wants to be a clone.

We must also remember that immoral means never justifies the end, no matter what benifits that end may bring. The horrific experiments conducted on Jewish Prisoners in Nazi Germany remind us that there is some knowledge that we must not pursue.

This leads us to our second contention.

SECOND CONTENTION

When the question of Liberty verses Progress arises, we will contend that there is no purpose in creating human clones. It would be a different story if we were to clone animals for purposes such as to eat or heal, but there is simply no need for human clones. In attempting to clone a human, the results would likely be many deformed fetus' and babies that would die soon after birth.

Furthermore it would be inhumane to create a human clone to harvest his organs. Shouldn't they have a right to ...

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Added: 2/3/2004 12:34:57 AM
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