Reconstructive Human Cloning, Ethical Issue
Is Reconstructive Human Cloning Unethical?
Since the beginning of the mid-20th century people were trying to progress the human era and thus begin a new era of humanity. Many of these theoretical approaches and trials have failed due to lack of experience and the technology. One of the first ones to experiment with an ultra-humans or super humans were Germans during the Second World War under the command of Adolf Hitler. “Experiments on twin children in concentration camps were created to show the similarities and differences in the genetics and eugenics of twins, as well as to see if the human body can be unnaturally manipulated (Webmaster).” Furthermore, he was also the first one to experiment with the new bomb techniques during his short governance. Nowadays, the science is far more progressed than it used to be during mid-20th century. What is possible now has not been even thought of 20 or 30 years ago. Furthermore, many people believe that the edge of science which involves a human cloning is inhuman or unethical. Reconstructive human cloning is ethical because it helps doctors to find cures for a diseases, it can progress and push humanity to a new horizon of possibilities, eliminate the black market of organs and provide many new opportunities in the health care.
When asked what many people think of a reconstructive human cloning, they may respond very negatively and raise many unethical questions, which have been in the most of the big debates about reconstructive human cloning. Some might say that this type of science is a taboo and therefore we should stay away from it. However, they probably think of human cloning as a whole new human that is being made or composed out of the old one. But that is not entirely true. The cloning process is far more complicated than it seems. When the first sheep that has been cloned entirely from a DNA of an old one was created, many people got scared that this science is dangerous and it will not be a good for
Since the beginning of the mid-20th century people were trying to progress the human era and thus begin a new era of humanity. Many of these theoretical approaches and trials have failed due to lack of experience and the technology. One of the first ones to experiment with an ultra-humans or super humans were Germans during the Second World War under the command of Adolf Hitler. “Experiments on twin children in concentration camps were created to show the similarities and differences in the genetics and eugenics of twins, as well as to see if the human body can be unnaturally manipulated (Webmaster).” Furthermore, he was also the first one to experiment with the new bomb techniques during his short governance. Nowadays, the science is far more progressed than it used to be during mid-20th century. What is possible now has not been even thought of 20 or 30 years ago. Furthermore, many people believe that the edge of science which involves a human cloning is inhuman or unethical. Reconstructive human cloning is ethical because it helps doctors to find cures for a diseases, it can progress and push humanity to a new horizon of possibilities, eliminate the black market of organs and provide many new opportunities in the health care.
When asked what many people think of a reconstructive human cloning, they may respond very negatively and raise many unethical questions, which have been in the most of the big debates about reconstructive human cloning. Some might say that this type of science is a taboo and therefore we should stay away from it. However, they probably think of human cloning as a whole new human that is being made or composed out of the old one. But that is not entirely true. The cloning process is far more complicated than it seems. When the first sheep that has been cloned entirely from a DNA of an old one was created, many people got scared that this science is dangerous and it will not be a good for
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