Cloning Debate

Ideally, clone have the potential to solve many problems that plague our world today. There are a lot of things that we could have clones doing to benefit our society such as farming or gathering other food resources and much more. However, the world is not yet sophisticated enough to handle concept of cloning. The first thing we must do in order to even contemplate the idea of clones is to have a standard definition of a human being. Personally, I believe in order for a human to be human one must meet one of the two requirements; have human features and or attributes, and aware of ones and others consciences being. But the definition of a human being is multifarious, what I believe a human to be is different to what you believe a human to be. …show more content…
Currently, mankind has yet to standardize the quality of life for all naturally conceived humans, thus the probability of humans coming to an agreement on what clones are and are not entitled to as clones will be very difficult. Thus we cannot clone anything that we full do not understand nor agree on. We would have to first come to an understanding on important issues such as abortion, or same-sex marriage before we can toss something else into the equation. In conjunction with the ignorance of the definition of a human, there are other conditions that are not favorable for legalizing cloning. Take these five examples, the cost vs. the need of clones, the consumption of those resources and the effects on other humans, the reality of clones becoming secondary class citizens, who would have access to human cloning and last but not least a clone uprising. All of which will illustrate that our current civilization and its morality and ethics are not ready for the legalization of