Examine the Implications of Cloning on Human Race

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fertile couples with children are celebrated and cherished, where infertile ones are looked down upon with disdain and scorn, cloning could serve as an avenue for infertile couples to be proud parents.

Not only humans, but plants and animals can be cloned as well. We have an example of Dolly, the sheep; there can be many more such animals man will be able to clone. Just like in Jurassic Park, they managed to get hold of a single strand of DNA and were able to create the entire species from the Lost World. Maybe we will be able to save tigers, whales, and other animals that are on the verge of extinction. What if scientists manage to bring back animal species that have already become extinct, like the dodo? Coming to cloning plants - crops that give more yields can be cloned and modified a bit by using genetic engineering. This will give rise to crops that contain more features than original plants and help overcome world food shortage. Plants can be cloned to produce more pest resistant varieties and those who can fix more atmospheric nitrogen. All these possibilities make cloning look like the need of the hour to help save not only the human race, but also plants and animals.

It is obvious that we have watched our long cherished ethical codes, virtues and traditions eroded by this new ways of doing things - Science and its technological drive. Indeed, human freewill and its possible misuse have produced people who find it difficult to apply such moral senses and codes. To them is irrelevant and archaic. It is however evident that human cloning is opposed on the basis that the act of cloning a person is intrinsically wrong - a deontological approach, and also because the consequences might be harmful. Though, the end might be good, the means are immoral, not to talk of the harmful impact it might have on the society, family and child.

Some objections raised against turning people into instruments of achieving ones’ egoistic ends are plausible. Nevertheless, the factitious of this world, which we find ourselves, dictates that man must take his destiny into his hands and chart a course for himself. Either he continues to live in perpetual slavery and fear of the known and unknown that constantly lucks at his doorstep or he strives to make this world, which he find himself a better place to live. Truly many people in the world would cherish the prospect of human cloning; the details may differ from one society to another, but the hope is basically the same - to live happily in ideal conditions.

Besides, acts with the highest good may involve the breaking of other moral codes. If this utilitarian principle is accepted, acts such as human cloning, which is ordinarily considered to be bad may turn out to be good in the long run. Biblical, we are not only made in God’s image but also to function like Him. Therefore, it is fallacious to assert that human cloning is against God’s will. If it was not God’s will for us to clone, how come He has given us the knowledge and creative capabilities to create the technology to clone?