Kass brings up a few interesting topics in his article Preventing a Brave New World, but his main point is mostly on the negatives of the development of cloning. Kass’s argument is that if we develop cloning, we’ll develop desensitization towards the matter and before we know it, cloning will embed its way into the mainstream of human society. At first glance, most people might say “That’s ridiculous and too outrageous, it’ll never happen!”; however that’s what most people probably said when Huxley’s Brave New World was published and just deemed the book as another science fiction dystopian novel. When I read the book myself, I honestly was surprised at how the society in the book paralleled with modern day society that we have now in America. We might not be making babies in factories and dosing them with alcohol to ensure that they remain in their “class”, but we do have the same obsession with sexualization, drugs, and consumerism, just on a lower level. We’re so obsessed with getting richer so we can buy better houses, better cars, better everything, that we don’t even pay attention to other things. Most people think the overnight shifts will be worth it if they can get a couple of extra bucks so they can buy the next model car that’ll be able to drive at 300 mph, not that they’ll ever even get the chance to go that fast.
