Let me reply with a humorous essay I wrote for my english class.
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I Think I’m A Clone Now
What is cloning? Or, Where does this part go?
There are two types of cloning. Therapeutic Cloning and Human Cloning.
Therapeutic Cloning is taking cells from somebody and using it to recreate a part of him. An arm, leg, kidney, liver, whatever! The hope is that we will be able to do this to replace old worn out, or damaged pieces of ourselves. Say you lose your arm in a traffic accident and it gets horribly mauled, we could take a sample of you tissue (skin) and grow you a new arm to attach to your new stump.
Human cloning is creating a twin or mini-me of someone. This individual would look exactly like the person he was cloned from. Many people think that this is wrong and immoral. I mean, oh my, that child looks exactly like you did at when you were that old.
How Cloning with Genetic Engineering will save us. Or, Look Ma, new hands!
As was previously stated, or said before, (Department of Redundancy Department) we hope we can use Therapeutic Cloning to replace old worn out bits and pieces. Something else we hope we can do is improve on the parts we already have. For example, you have bad eyesight. You can’t see the wall in front of you. What if we could clone you a new set of eyes, but these ones can actually see things, like redwoods. Wouldn’t that be a whole lot better?
Now lets expand this, say that your eyes can see within the normal range of the electromagnetic spectrum (think color chart). It would be real nice if we could tweak your new cloned eyes so that they pick up the infrared spectrum, too. You wouldn’t ever stub your toe on something you couldn’t see in the dark. You’d know exactly what you stubbed your toe on.
The Human Cloning part comes up for people who can’t have children. Since we can only replace existing parts and can’t improve upon them yet, we can’t replace ovaries and wombs. So we use techniques such as those using surrogate mothers (“You’re my best friend, mind having my kid for me?â€). And another tool we might be able to use is human cloning. Just try to think of it as another way to create a happy family.
And when we do gain the ability to improve on ourselves on the genetic level, we could start improving our kids before they were even conceived. “Little Johnny would have underdeveloped muscles!?! Well, we can fix that, now he can play football with all the other kids.†We can also take this one step further and create super kids. How would you like your son or daughter to be able to bench five hundred pounds? Well, if my daughter benched that much, it would probably scare the stuffing out of me. Anyways, wouldn’t that be great? Or make your daughter a concert violinist at birth. Can the Johnson’s kid play violin at three?
The last use for a cloned human could be for the psychological study: “How much does our environment affect our personalities?†We’ve had astounding breakthroughs with twins, but what if we could test fifty kids instead of two, then the real numbers would be coming in.
How cloning will not destroy humanity. Or, Cloned kids have it too easy these days.
In the past there was forbidden knowledge. Did you know that it was considered immoral and against god to cut into human flesh back in the day (some time BC). Oh my, lets go and stone our local surgeon (not the bong, moron!). In the beginning of the twentieth century, invitro fertilization (the doctor does it for you) was paramount to cloning, today. And now look at it, thousands of families use it to get a healthy kid and raise a good family.
Many people against cloning say that it goes against God. Well, if God doesn’t want happy families, then I say we go against him.
Other people are afraid of therapeutic cloning.
“Oh my God! Headless humans being grown as spare parts!â€(Krauthammer, NOTE: Not a direct quote)
Uh, no. You have any idea how much it costs to keep a human on life support? If you don’t, just ask Grandma why she took Grandpa off life support. The obvious way to do this is the same as Just On Time Delivery (JOTD the Japanese way). Pretty much JOTD is creating the part when you need, and putting it in right then. No need to spend millions of dollars keeping a headless freak alive in a jar in your basement when for only a couple thousand, you could create just the part you need and have it installed right away (operators are standing by). Yes, you could be the first in your intensive care wing to get his replacement heart (please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery).
The idea behind JOTD is that we aren’t going to create freak farms so that we can happily harvest replacement parts that might not work. We clone you when you need the part so it’s a part of you. No hassle with rejection.
The last big fear of the improve my kid and make him Superman thing is that now we have all these people who can pick up cars like daisies and look through the walls into the girls showers. Well, if everyone can do it, doesn’t that make that the norm? And if it’s the norm, doesn’t that make everyone doing it normal?
Conclusion Or, Skip here and just say you read it.
If you couldn’t tell by this document (and I lay it on pretty thick), cloning is just the next step for medical science to take. People were scared out of their wits when the idea of autopsies to see how people died came up. And now everyone has their panties in a twist over a non-event. Everyone’s afraid we’ll create something terrible when we can barely get it to work in the first place(Gorner & Kotulak). Study cloning, don’t ban it (Kevles). The world can use smarter kids and better parents. Why don’t we just use all of the resources we have and try to do that? That’s all cloning is, anyways, another tool to better society.
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Let me end with the fact that I do not believe in your god, so your point is moot. Humans have the power to change their enviornment, I say we might as well use our powers and bring some good into the world with it. If you have a problem with that, dig a deep hole, sit in it with your fingers in your ears and hum really loudly.
