My
thoughts about human cloning
Since
the birth of Dolly, nowadays, there have been many cases of animal cloning. Then
how about human cloning? If cases of animal cloning can succeed, human cloning
will not be a big problem. However, there has been none case of human cloning
nowadays, because it may result in a series of ethical problems. So although I
am really interested in human cloning, I can hardly get to know about human
cloning in reality. But for me to think about human cloning is still an interesting
thing.
I
can clearly remember the feeling of excitement when I first heard about cloning
and knew that it might help to create another me. At that time I thought if I
could create a new me through cloning then when I went home, there would be no
need for me to do my homework since there was another me. I would ask him to do
my homework and sometimes when my mum asked me to do some housework I could
still ask him to do for me. Then all the things that I hated to do would go to
him and I would only do the things that I was interested in. At that time I
really considered that having a cloned me was really a good thing.
However,
gradually I found that the good thing I considered when I was young was not as
simple as what I thought. I began to consider more. If the cloned me was
exactly the same as me, then how about his thoughts. Whether would we have the
same thoughts in our minds or whether what emerged in my mind would instantly be
known by him? Would there be two me in the world? I began to fear. And from
some movies I became even afraid that one day the cloned me might kill the real
me and take the place of me.
Today
in class we have talked something about human cloning. And when asked about
whether or not we were in favor of human cloning, I chose to be in favor of it.
There are many people who are against it thinking that it may cause many
ethical problems in our society. But I think since the future is unpredictable
and human cloning may bring great contributions to our society, why don’t we
have a try. It may sound absurd. However, it’s just what I think. And I believe
human cloning will bring some unexpected results to the world.
Almost everything has good aspect and bad aspect. Personally, clonging can be accepted, but we should deal with it carefully, since it may influence the future of all human beings.
ReplyDeleteyes. hehe. it may bring many miracles.
DeleteI think considering biology and the essence of cloning, the cloned one of you will be much younger that you, except that you are cloned immediately after you were born. Thus maybe it is not very viable to let him do homework and housework:)
ReplyDeleteAdditionaly, I think the cloned one just has the same genes as you, which means two of you are just born the same. Genes may influence your ways of thinking, but maybe he is unlikely to know what you are comtemplating for now:)
hehe, yes. but when i was young i often considered that cloning could make a exact same me.
DeleteI don't know, Zhu Lei; I think the prospect of cloning a human is rather scary. There are so many issues involved. A human being has thoughts and feelings; how would he feel if he knew he was a clone? There are books that explore this premise of course; if you like fiction, you could read Blood Ties and Blood Ransom by Sophie McKenzie.
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