ethical issues
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Ethics
I am going to discuss the ethical implications of bio-ethics (cloning), smacking children and capital punishment, highlighting conflicting values, beliefs and interests.
The ethical effects of cloning.
You have been told that you are unique. The belief that there is no one else like you in the whole wide world made you feel special and proud, this belief may not be true in the future.
The world was stunned by the news in late February 1997 that a British embryologist named Ian Wilmut and his research team had successfully cloned a lamb named Dolly from an adult sheep. Replacing the DNA of one sheep's egg with the DNA of another sheep's udder created dolly. While plants and lower forms of animal life have been successfully cloned for many years now, before Wilmut's announcement it had been thought by many to be unlikely that such a procedure could be performed on higher mammals. The world media was immediately filled with heated discussions about the ethical implications of cloning. Do the potential harms outweigh the potential benefits of cloning?
One point that those against cloning are often worried about is that the clone would have no soul, no mind, no feelings or emotions of their own, no say in how their life will be with their destiny predetermined for them, and that each individual clone would not be unique...