cloning 101
...point. How do we treat these clones we create? They know everything we have been through and they love the same people we love, so they might want to take over our lives forever. They shouldn’t have rights to do that. They are people as well but it wouldn’t be very decent of us if we wouldn’t let them near their families. It wouldn’t be very fair if we treated them like experiments (even though they are) because we must remember they are people as well. Also, if a man were to be cloned, would he have to pay for his clone’s food and living materials? You may think so, but he does not own his clone…but some say he might. He paid for it, so you may assume he does. But paying for a clone doesn’t entitle you to ownership…or does it? This is a particularly hard question to answer, for the clone is his own person with thoughts, feelings and this encludes loving the family of the original. Does this mean the family has to love both the copy and the original? You can just imagine a little girl waking up on Christmas Day and seeing two fathers. She would have to buy two gifts. She would feel obligated to love the original more than the clone. The originals be jealous of the clones for being able to start a new life or for sharing their family. The clones would be jealous of the originals for taking away their lives. Keep in mind that the clone still has every memory that the original has. Everything is exactly the same for the clone as it is for the original. The clone will feel as if it were the original because the fact is, it’s just a carbon copy. In an early episode of “Round the Twist” Linda finds a cloning machine and clones herself but the clone has faults and at the end it dies. If we produce clones with faults, our society may get so attached to them, so much so, that when these clones do something wrong, we forget they are not human and we allow them to do this more and more until they take over the universe. Clones also may not be accepted by society. They could be outcasts with no friends and no lives. If nobody wishes to employ these clones, they cannot survive. Nobody knows how we will react to these clones. Some people may not like the idea of cloning due to that the Bible does not say anything about it. Some Christians may think it’s ungodly. Some people may think that it’s the end of the world, that technology has gone so far that the antichrist is coming and we will all go to hell. Some of society will disagree in making clones due to the expense. We still have world hunger to cure and houses to build in Afghanistan, s...