Alex Hejka
Mrs. George
English III Period G
13/12/2014
Cloning: Right or Wrong?
In today’s culture we have an infinitely developing population. For some motive, however, scientists want to experiment with reproductive technology on individuals. They have used it on wildlife in the past; it appeared to work, therefore they reason that it will work with people. Back in 1997, they first used it on Dolly the sheep and they made an impeccable duplicate. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World they use these factories to clone embryos and there are no mothers or fathers. The statement of fathers or mothers makes this culture laugh. This is essentially because they never heard of them since they were born by means of cloning. If this happened to our culture, …show more content…
“’And now … I’d like to show you some very interesting conditioning for Alpha Plus Intellectuals’” (Huxley 17). Since Alphas receive a special conditioning, Betas and Epsilons will never reach the Alphas’ morals and will, as a result, continually suffer discrimination. Huxley believes cloning individuals constructs a social pyramid where individuals will never gain the opportunity to travel up or down, generating a present-day society. Countless people would presumably be oppressed these days if they didn’t have parents. Society would perceive them as dissimilar and not treat them with respect. It would furthermore mean that a clone would be maintained by the government. That would mean they would probably have constraints on what they can do. Cloning may not be a very essential innovation. An additional passage is when Mustapha Mond tells John that some clones have imperfect capabilities. ‘“Expecting Deltas to know what liberty is! And now expecting them to understand Othello”’ (Huxley 220). Huxley displays the inequality disagreeing with Alphas would cause, by giving the Alphas all the main positions. Giving Alphas the main positions marks cloning unethical because giving Alphas all the power creates imbalanced competition for the Betas and Epsilons. This might mean that one day we won’t even be familiar with what freedom is. We’d be living under a dystopia, a dictatorship. We won’t read old material similar to Shakespeare and the Bible. That may well mean that Christianity, the most universal religion in the world, would be exterminated from society in the future. Much of today’s culture is Catholic or some other Christian denomination, therefore much of society would either have to contradict their faith or be banished from civilization. We also wouldn’t have productions or theaters for that matter because Shakespeare was well-known for his role in the
Mrs. George
English III Period G
13/12/2014
Cloning: Right or Wrong?
In today’s culture we have an infinitely developing population. For some motive, however, scientists want to experiment with reproductive technology on individuals. They have used it on wildlife in the past; it appeared to work, therefore they reason that it will work with people. Back in 1997, they first used it on Dolly the sheep and they made an impeccable duplicate. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World they use these factories to clone embryos and there are no mothers or fathers. The statement of fathers or mothers makes this culture laugh. This is essentially because they never heard of them since they were born by means of cloning. If this happened to our culture, …show more content…
“’And now … I’d like to show you some very interesting conditioning for Alpha Plus Intellectuals’” (Huxley 17). Since Alphas receive a special conditioning, Betas and Epsilons will never reach the Alphas’ morals and will, as a result, continually suffer discrimination. Huxley believes cloning individuals constructs a social pyramid where individuals will never gain the opportunity to travel up or down, generating a present-day society. Countless people would presumably be oppressed these days if they didn’t have parents. Society would perceive them as dissimilar and not treat them with respect. It would furthermore mean that a clone would be maintained by the government. That would mean they would probably have constraints on what they can do. Cloning may not be a very essential innovation. An additional passage is when Mustapha Mond tells John that some clones have imperfect capabilities. ‘“Expecting Deltas to know what liberty is! And now expecting them to understand Othello”’ (Huxley 220). Huxley displays the inequality disagreeing with Alphas would cause, by giving the Alphas all the main positions. Giving Alphas the main positions marks cloning unethical because giving Alphas all the power creates imbalanced competition for the Betas and Epsilons. This might mean that one day we won’t even be familiar with what freedom is. We’d be living under a dystopia, a dictatorship. We won’t read old material similar to Shakespeare and the Bible. That may well mean that Christianity, the most universal religion in the world, would be exterminated from society in the future. Much of today’s culture is Catholic or some other Christian denomination, therefore much of society would either have to contradict their faith or be banished from civilization. We also wouldn’t have productions or theaters for that matter because Shakespeare was well-known for his role in the