Is Cloning Ethical
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The ethical issues of cloning are complex and cause numerous debates as to whether cloning is humane. Cloning could be used for good purposes such as curing diseases or growing organs for transplants, but does cloning become playing God?
The legitimate purpose [of cloning] is not to turn out clones of Einstein Its purpose is to produce, over sever generations, a great majority of people who are, by a goodly margin, smarter, stronger and healthier than their forebears and are capable of leading successively fuller, happier lives human lives (Sechler LA Times).
Most people do not consider cloning in this way. Instead they imagine the users of cloning being "narcissists" or control freaks who will only regard their children as products intended to meet certain specifications, not as free children. But most people who would use cloning would use it for good purposes. That is where the debating begins as to whether cloning is ethical or not. As Charles S. Tritt puts it:
Nearly every technology can be applied for good or for evil. Reproductive technologies in general and cloning from somatic cells in particular is no different...