FREE ESSAY ON CLONING

CLONING

Is cloning necessary for advancements in improving the quality of life? 
Is cloning necessary for advancements in improving the quality of life? People often
question whether or not we as a scientific nation are trying to play the role of God.
Many people say that we should not try to interfere with nature. That is fine if in
everyday life we did not try to change our habitat every single second of every single
day. More than likely at one point and time the land on which your house sits was covered
by a pasture of woodlands. That is interference. If we try to clone organs for transplant
patients that are in their final hour then we are actually improving their life. If
improvement in the quality of life is playing God, then is that necessarily a bad thing?

Do we have the right to clone? We are all guaranteed rights by the fact that we are human
beings. Those rights include the right to pursue areas of scientific study. Not many
people vocalized his or her disapproval of space exploration. At the time that there was
no talk of how morally wrong Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon was going to be. They
could have argued the fact we are created on earth we must stay here and not interfere
with things beyond our comprehension. If they did, and the program did not lift off, then
we would not have some of the technologies that we have today. Cloning can only yield new
technologies that will be beneficial to society. 
One misconception that many people have is that this technology can fall into the wrong
hands. We could not clone a person of history to be the same person that he or she was
before. If we were to do that then it would be near impossible to reproduce the same
character. They would like any other ordinary human; they would be conceived, developed,
and then born as all other babies. They would have the same appearance and genetic makeup
as their equal. This does not mean that they would have the same mental capacity as their
previous life. There are many things that lead to a human's personality. Genetic makeup
does not have as significant role as many believe. 
Organ cloning is something that would be extremely beneficial to society. Imagine the
ability to create a liver for a child that has less than a month to live. In the medical
profession the philosophy of every doctor is to "improve the quality of life". Is giving
a child a second chance improving the quality of life? Or is it playing God?
Imagine if the technology was available to clone his liver in order to prolong his life.
In this country there are thousands of people on waiting lists to receive new organs that
will help prolong their life. Many of these people will die because there is not a
suitable donor that matches their needs. Imagine the lives that will be saved if an
individual can clone their own liver, or any other organ that is needed to survive an
illness. 
As much as cloning is perceived as a good thing, it could change life to an entire new
civilization. Cloning runs the risk of creating a population that is entirely the same.
This population would be susceptible to the same diseases, and one disease could
devastate the entire population. One can easily picture humans being wiped out be a
single virus, but more events could occur from a lack of genetic diversity. For example,
if a large percentage of a nation's cattle are identical clones, a single virus could
effect the entire population. The result could be large food shortage in the United
States.
Any research into human cloning would eventually need to be tested on human. The ability
to clone humans may lead to the genetic tailoring of offspring. The heart of the cloning
debate is concerned with the genetic management of a human embryo before it begins
development. It is conceivable that scientists could alter a baby's genetic codes to give
the individual a certain color of eyes or genetic resistance to certain diseases. This is
viewed as inappropriate, some look at it as playing God. Cloning might be used to create
a perfect human, or one with above normal strength and sub-normal intelligence, a genetic
underclass. Also, if cloning were perfected in humans, there would be no genetic need for
men. As in the book, A Brave New World, they cloned people into classes that made an
entire society of genetic humans that resembled nothing less than an ant-farm. In the
Alpha Class the cloning conditioned one to have a great life just like the queen ant
having hundreds protect her. Or in the Epsilon Class being conditioned to think that
being a janitor is a good thing or the equivalent to a worker ant. They go about their
work as if it's the best work possible. By creating the perfect clone and knowing the
fact that men could be eliminated from existence is playing God. Cloning might have a
detrimental effect on domestic relationships. A child born from an adult DNA cloning of
his father could be considered a delayed identical twin of one of his parents. It is
unknown as to how a human might react if he or she knew he or she was an exact duplicate
of an older individual.
Researchers say that within 5 years a pill that will help prevent cancer will be
introduced on the market. That is great if you do not already have it. If we find the
gene that has been mutated then we will be able to correct that, alleviating all of the
signs of the cancer. 
Cloning will change the face of the planet forever. We should be excited that we are able
to duplicate such a complex sequence of genes. Whatever you feel is morally right we
should allow this to happen because if we never explore the risks then we can never enjoy
the benefits. As previously stated the space exploration yielded many new technologies
that will forever aid in the bettering of society. We cannot continue to prohibit the
exploration of scientific study. If this practice continues then we will not be able to
continue to develop advancements in the prolonging of the human species. We can't impose
a ban on cloning, if we do then who is to say that we will not impose a ban on the
research that will hopefully one day lead to a cure for cancer.