The contemporary issue of human
cloning unleashed a whole slew of principles I didn’t even know I had. The
issue definitely challenged my new found moral principles on human cloning for
the reason that some people support it. I feel like growing extra body parts
and organs is one thing. But, growing an entire person is a gigantic can of
worms we don’t really need to open.
It gives me anxiety just thinking about it.
Being able to select genes would create a whole new kind of responsibility. I
also feel like it takes all the fun out of having a baby. Well I’m not saying
its all fun but you know what I mean. Anyway I feel like it’s a special thing
to see “whose eyes” and “whose nose” the baby has. To me selecting jeans makes
it feel less like a baby and more like a designable character on
a videogame.
Then you get into the whole issue of
actually cloning people. Do clones have rights? If so do they have the same
rights as everybody else? Do they have the right to their own bodies? Are they
even really people?
Although I do support growing new
organs and body parts for ALREADY living people, I guess I would say I lean
more toward Leon. Not for all the same reasons as him but for the fact that he
was against it.
