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LAS 432 Week 6 DQ 2 Technology, Morality, and Ethics
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Technology, Morality, and Ethics (graded)In the article by Leon Kass, “Preventing a Brave New World,” the author argues for a worldwide ban on all forms of human cloning. Do you agree with the author’s arguments? Could we realistically allow therapeutic cloning but ban human cloning? What are the ethical questions raised by cloning? Is there any moral difference between applying genetic engineering technologies to humans and applying them to animals and plants? What role should governments play in making policies regarding ethical issues?If you enjoy discussing hot button issues this is a question for you. This is another gut wrenching contemporary technology that creates a whole new set of issues for us. Don’t think you can answer this question with emotion or off the cuff judgments. This is a complicated technical matter and to answer it meaningfully you must have an understanding of the technical issues involved. Opinion won’t cut it here, we need knowledge – informed opinion. Lay people make a lot of assumptions about cloning that are simply irrelevant to the issue—like “I’m gonna clone my Mom”. No, you’re not. Your “Mom” has a history, a character, a personality. Those things aren’t cloned. Cloning is now a widely used technology and not just in the United States. Keep that in mind. One other caution, this is favorite topic for Hollywood producers. Film producers may have some interesting and important things to say about human cloning but keep in mind they are fiction. For the last 70 years Hollywood has made a lot of movies about foreign space invaders from other planets. We haven’t seen one yet. So movies are not a gage of rightness or wrongness of any action.I would think there are some states that may have laws against human reproductive cloning, but I will be interested if the courts will find them enforceable if it goes that far. If I were a business firm in Missouri I would not try to produce a human clone there, but if I were a firm in Missouri I might consider paying someone in China to do it and then reap the benefits if any.I'm not aware that human reproductive cloning is illegal. I know the Federal Government will not allow Federal funds to support reproductive cloning, there may be some states that have passed laws against cloning, but I am not aware of what Constitutional power on a Federal or State level would allow the government to forbid human cloning by private parties. Does anyone have any information on this? I'm not sure what you would arrest someone for, creating a human being?I was struck by your comment that cloning is bad because it is "tantamount to playing with the creative forces of the nature". Isn't that what we do all the time, isn't that what technology largely is? We dam rivers, we fly in space, we fly airplanes, we build artificial hearts, we transplant human hearts, we inject anti-biotics we made in a lab, on and on and on. Is a prohibition on cloning based in not violating the creative forces of nature an argument that comes a little late. Why do you think it is that Kass is having such a negative reaction that he uses prejudicial terminology like "repugnant"?With respect to the poor success rate of cloning I would remind the class that all the first receipients of heart transplants died within a few minutes or hours of the transplant. Today a very heffty number of humans are walking around happily with transplanted hearts as well as other organs. New technologies often run high risks, is that really a strong argument against cloning?You seem to not want to select your children's genes. But in fact humans do that all the time. We have many social pressures to select a mate in our own social group which is selecting genes. Certain physical things are appealing in the opposite sex, and that is selecting genes. And the world is full of matchmakers and mothers who are always in the market for "a good match" which often has a genetic component in what they are looking for. Doesn't it make more sense for scientists to select the best genes right in the lab?we as humans never interferedin the "Natural Procreation and evolutionary process of nature" we would still be eating fruit and grubbing for roots in a tropical rain forest somewhere, living in small groups and not wearing cloths or speaking a language. Now after all this heart transplants, antibiotics, in-uterine surgery to save children, and brain surgery you now want us to stop interfering with mother nature by not doing cloning? Does that argument really hold up given our history? https://www.examtutorials.com/course/las-432-week-6-dq-2-technology-morality-and-ethics/ |
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