Here is our 8th blog topic, human cloning proposed by Jin-Ha. And here are the articles you need to read in order to form a knowledgeable opinion about the topic:
http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/mcgee.html,
http://www.religioustolerance.org/clo_intra.htm,
http://www.srtp.org.uk/cloninf5.htm, and
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6939/4/3.
You have until April 11, next Friday to read the articles, compose your wordlist, and post your comments.
As always, have fun with it.
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Human cloning shocked me when I first heard these two words. In my opinion, human cloning will change the world to a totally different world. The dream which is human beings living forever will come true. If the technology of human cloning will develop perfectly, the organisms of the human bodies can be copied to cure human diseases. Medically, it has the most positive meaning because everything can be replaced by the exactly the same organisms. It is so awesome to imagine that every one besides us including ourselves won’t die forever. But biologically, it is horrible to predict that there will be thousands millions of human beings living on the earth. What will happen finally if human beings won’t die? It will definitely destroy the balance of zoology. At that time, there is no place for animals like lions, tigers and elephants to live. Moreover, if animals can’t survive, indirectly, human beings will die of no food because all animals are killed to leave the place. On the other side, if the human cloning is success, I will be so afraid to see a person who has the exactly the same face as I have. And I think that if there is a man knows all what I am thinking about, I will prefer to die for no privacy.
In a movie called ‘Island’, they clone humans in order to replace old organs of the original with the new organs, and the cloned humans had to be killed after giving healthy organs. I was really convinced by the movie. Scientists say that there is way to duplicate only necessary organs with advanced cloning technology. However, we all know that the greed of human being is unlimited. If we are cloned, the dignity of the human will become the problem. Is the clone allowed to be considered as a human being? Just like in the article, there is a possibility that clones will not even be able to live a full life, which means, if the original was the age of 25, clones could start his life at the age of 25. If we say that clones are the human, we would not want to give clones these short lives. The one thing that makes us so special is that each of us is the only one that exists in this world. If we are cloned, we lose our uniqueness. Just like Yuhan said I would not even want to think about the person who looks like me, talks like me, sounds like me, behaves like me, and pretends as if he is me.
A lot of people opposes all kinds of experiments regarding to human cloning. However I think it is not incorrect to clone human being. We have already cloned sheep, cows and so many other mammals, why can't we just clone human being? People may say it is against Darwin's evolution rule and it might be against the rule set by the God. But my opinion is that human cloning is just another way of making human. People may say clone violates the ethics of our society. There was a scientist claimed that he could never imagine his wife sitting with him while "another he" existed around them. But the thing is there exists so many twin brothers or twin sisters and most of them are living happily. I don't see why a person cannot bear another person just because they have the same appearance. After all, clone technology does not clone the mind of a human being at all.
A large group of people think clone is an extreme irresponsible activity. There are evidence showing that reconstructing DNA might bring cancer. However, a large number of experiments indicate strict control during research can prevent such development of cancer. Cloning does not necessarily bring all sorts of disease.
So I think cloning is not the root of all evil. The reason of people being afraid of cloning is just the inside fear of new things and unknowns.
As provided from one of the sources, cloning is the production of one or more individual plants or animals that are genetically identical to another plant or animal. This means, a new same kind of animal or plant would be produced from cloning from. If this happen to human, that means we could have more than one person that has the same genetics and attributes with ourselves. Isn't that just so scary? I believe nobody wants to share everything others. I strongly against human cloning as it would cause problems to people because there is no guarantee that the first cloned humans will be normal. What would happen to this abnormal "human"? Who's going to take care of them? I am pretty sure that people would just ignore them because they are just clone. As a result they would be destroyed. Human cloning also stops the diversity among human as the same people would be produce from the cloning process. In fact, these clones would have a lower level of quality than real human. Lastly, human cloning is ethically wrong as we know that only god can create human.
Cloning is a very controversial topic from the day cloning-sheep DOLLY was born. Morality has become a popular word since the anti-cloning side acclaim that cloning has infringed “human dignity”. I think cloning within a relatively narrowed limit is going to benefit us all, and on the other hand, I don’t agree that full-body human cloning should be developed. I think cloning certain organism doesn’t really concern with morality because an organism doesn’t even have a conscience, not to mention its medical value to the whole society. However, if we clone a full-body human being, it will bring a lot of problems. First, how are people going to live with the truth that someone is sharing exactly the same gene with your say mother? Call that person your mom or what? It brings serious morality issues there. Also, we will not be positive that from generations to generations, cloning-made humans will not mutate or with vital flaw, and that will be devastate to the whole mankind. Therefore I assume that within proper limitations, cloning will just be fine.
Cloning is shocking the world since the day cloning-sheep Dolly was born. I think cloning is the “copy” of something or somebody. In a biological way, cloning is the “exact genetic copy of an existing organism”. Emotionally I don’t like human cloning at all, because it seems terrible to have someone else who may be totally the same as you, the same looking, the same talent, and maybe the same disposition. Besides my personal thought, I agreed with most pro-life supporters’ opinion. “Most pro-life supporters believe that a fertilized ovum is a full human person. When its nucleus is removed during cloning, that person is, in effect, murdered.” On the other hand, some people who don’t want to or aren’t able to have a child, may support the human cloning to have a baby. Otherwise, some lesbians or gays may also be willing to use this way to have a bay. However, there is no success before. The cloning babies may be disabled, mad or abnormal. Experiments are not moral and should be banned. The last disadvantage of human cloning is that it may create more crimes. They could use cloning human to commit a crime and don’t need to worry about death.
On the one hand, I think the technology of cloning is not well develop now, namely, there are still many defects. so based on this point, i don't think it is proper to make a human cloning because it will distribute to defected human beings. On the other hand, though maybe decades years later, people can develop a well-functioned way to clone animals or plants, i still think it is not proper to use on cloning humans. this time is based on the aspect of ethic. First of all,Clone is a technology that can make a genetically same as the DNA donor. however, in the world of human beings, there isn't any people will be the same as the other one, because human beings can think individually and they are all different individuals. Second, it is terrible to have a someone totally look like the same with you in the world, no matter it just clone the DNA from a dead person.
i think the technology of cloning in biology is proper to be used on animals or plants instead of human beings, because the meanings of developing this kind of technology is to benefit human beings but trying to make trouble within human beings. the technology of cloning can be use to do research but to clone a really person.
clone is just clone the DNA, but the same DNA donor, so it is not necessary to use human clone to have a "cloned" baby. after all, they are cloned. they are not who really should be.
These days human cloning has been a very big issue. In my opinion human cloning should not be used in our worlds. The first reason why I think the human cloning is not desirable is because it will bring forth chaos to our society. Moreover people would lose the uniqueness of their own. I remeber that i watched the movie callled "island" the movie deals with human cloning. IN the movie, they show both the advatages and disadvantages we get from hman cloning. By duplicating people's organ, people can expend their life, but on the other hand, there are also disadvantages we get from human cloning. Human cloning would provide ethinical and religious problems. Let's imagine that you are a cloned human, you look the same, but you are just an imitation. How would you feel? And it will be so scary if you get to see a person who look exactly the same as you. Everyone has their own uniquness, and this uniqueness should be kept for human rights.
Human cloning is one of the most controversial issues to discuss. Since the history of human cloning isn’t long, many countries do not have law to regulate human cloning yet. Although, human cloning can bring us benefit with developing partial organs to replace the diseased organ, my position for human cloning is neutral. One reason that I could think of is that ethical problem. Our lives are granted by nature of god. I can’t say creating human cloning is neither right nor wrong. Since the technology of human cloning is not developed enough to create human clone, I think it’s better to wait for now. For the later years, we will definitely need a law for regulating human cloning. Besides the fact of proving their development in biotechnology by creating human clone, I think creating thousands or millions of human clones will cause some kind of big problems to our society.
Cloning technology is a new controversial biological technology that can be very beneficial to us. For instance, cloning in agriculture can help to solve the problem of lacking of foods supply. This technology also maintain the good quality of foods produced. Nevertheless, human cloning should not and never be legalized. First of all, why we want human to be cloned?i simply cannot find a credible reason to do that. God has created this world perfectly. In every seconds, hundreds babies are bond and at the same time, hundreds people die. Thus, i dont think it is necessary to clone human. Additionally, this technology is too angerous to be applied to human being who are believed posses the most complicated DNA system. There is no chance for error and a small and accidentally mistake will lead to serious problems. All in all, human cloning is unethical and wasteful project. There are nothing important to achieve in human cloning except name and pride.
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