Cloning
...o cloning (Cooper 356). I would like to know the reasoning behind it. If it is good reasoning, which I cannot think of, then I would rethink my position and consider their reasoning. So far the only reason I came up with is that it isn’t natural or traditional. When the television was just invented was it traditional to watch it? When the telephone was just first invented was it traditional to call someone three-hundred miles away instead of writing a letter? Most likely not, because it is new. Anything that is new is never traditional. Why would we want to clone humans? This question is the only question so far that has got me thinking. Yes, it is nice that we could possibly clone a human. What is the purpose of this though? Once the human is cloned what will we do with it? Chances are that it will most likely live a short life and it will probably serve someone. This is why I am neutral on this topic. It would be nice to have the technology as to create a person. But there is no reason for it and I am not so sure that the person who is created will be treated the same as everyone else. Science successfully cloning a sheep did not surprise me at all. Science has been very successful in the past and when I found out they had successfully cloned a sheep I did not think anything of it. My reaction was “Oh, that is nice.” I heard that now they are trying to clone t-cells so if someone needs an organ transplant they can attempt to clone an organ instead of searching desperately for a donor. As much as science has succeeded in the past, this operation seems a little far out there. It would be extremely difficult to clone a liver or bladder. Even if it i...