Scientific and technological progress provides humankind with increasing power and ability to do things, that earlier were thought to be impossible. Each time approaching a moment of readiness to cross a moral boundary we ask ourselves again and again whether we have the moral rights to cross that boundary, and whether the benefits of the new invention will outweigh the potential abuse and negative outcomes. Harry Harrison once said: "There are no good or evil machines or inventions, but they are made good or evil by the way people use them". Recently, humankind has approached another boundary crossing which was thought to have an action of creation allowed to God 's only - the reproduction of life through cloning. Just the theoretical possibility
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Our world is still deeply influenced and to a certain extent managed by religious institutions. Many refrain from criminal acts, or actions able to hurt others to avoid punishment in their afterlife. On contrary, many atheists became criminals trying to get as much as possible by any means to benefit while still alive since there will be nothing after death. Cloning possess danger to existing religions - if a living human can be mechanically created in the laboratory, there is no way to detect whether the clone will have a soul which similar people "created by God " will continue in afterlife existence. If many identical clones are created simultaneously will they have different souls, same one or non at all? If there will be a soul in the clone then humans become gods able to create other humans which may question the very foundations of man 's religions. Moreover, if a clone will be recognized as lacking a soul then from a religious point of view such person will not be recognized as human and equal to other people, and the existence of such beings may be considered as mocking religious beliefs. This topic is important and sensitive enough to cause explosions of riots and even religious civil wars, if not handled correctly. Addressing this issue should be a must condition prior to any consideration of going ahead with cloning …show more content…
Furthermore, we have to ask ourselves. At what moment does a clone stop to be a product but a righteous being? When would he/she be recognized as an individual allowed to have a personal life instead of being watched as an experiment or sold as a product with a warranty? "The question is not whether we ought ban or applaud cloning, but why would we choose to go forward and whether our choices bode well or ill for present and future children and our relationship with them." Until we can answer such questions with certainty our world will never be
Our world is still deeply influenced and to a certain extent managed by religious institutions. Many refrain from criminal acts, or actions able to hurt others to avoid punishment in their afterlife. On contrary, many atheists became criminals trying to get as much as possible by any means to benefit while still alive since there will be nothing after death. Cloning possess danger to existing religions - if a living human can be mechanically created in the laboratory, there is no way to detect whether the clone will have a soul which similar people "created by God " will continue in afterlife existence. If many identical clones are created simultaneously will they have different souls, same one or non at all? If there will be a soul in the clone then humans become gods able to create other humans which may question the very foundations of man 's religions. Moreover, if a clone will be recognized as lacking a soul then from a religious point of view such person will not be recognized as human and equal to other people, and the existence of such beings may be considered as mocking religious beliefs. This topic is important and sensitive enough to cause explosions of riots and even religious civil wars, if not handled correctly. Addressing this issue should be a must condition prior to any consideration of going ahead with cloning …show more content…
Furthermore, we have to ask ourselves. At what moment does a clone stop to be a product but a righteous being? When would he/she be recognized as an individual allowed to have a personal life instead of being watched as an experiment or sold as a product with a warranty? "The question is not whether we ought ban or applaud cloning, but why would we choose to go forward and whether our choices bode well or ill for present and future children and our relationship with them." Until we can answer such questions with certainty our world will never be