The Ethics of Cloning

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This paper discusses the idea of immorality in cloning, since clones lack a sense of their own uniqueness. It looks at how the most glaring example of why a person that is not genetically unique can still be product of a moral agent, as shown by naturally existing genetic copies, identical twins, or triplets, etc. It explores how, although they lack a sense of their own physical uniqueness and although they are not genetically unique, they are always individual entities with unique personalities. It attempts to show that, although cloning may be immoral for other reasons, we can not draw the conclusion that a lack of uniqueness transliterates as something that is immoral.

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"We can understand that this viewpoint of non-individualism is rationed from the idea that a human clone will not have a sense of individuality despite being a separate entity, because of the popular, yet erroneous, belief that genes determine a person's personality as well as their physical characteristics . But the clone's environmental factors will be based on his or her choices "the choices themselves being influenced by the clone's environment" while the only things being "played out" will be genetic probabilities. It is a case of nature versus nurture. According to an online encyclopaedia, www.wordiq.com, "current thinking discredits the notion that genes alone are sufficient in determining personality traits." Rather, particular genes influence the development of a trait in the context of a particular environment." For example, life choices, or the "nurture" factor, are things such as accepting a pregnancy at age 19, or learning the local language, and are different to predetermined genetic probabilities such as Huntington's disease , or brown skin."

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