Blog 4
How did the first contemporary issue effect your principles? Did it challenge them? Were your principles helpful in working out your response to the issue? Which philosopher's position was most consistent with your own principles and why?
The first part of the blog is hard to answer because I never had asked myself what I though in regards in human cloning and even now after thinking about it I dont think that human goes against my principles my I do think that is merely ego driven and has no really useful purpose some people might say oh, but I would want to use thier organs in case I need them. Well, that sentence alone shows the value you have to another human life. To me personally cloning is very much like having children and they like ur clone should not be treated as property just because the are a part of you.
It challenged my principles in the sense that I that believe that cloning is breaking up or playing with the natural way of us humans to procreate. We also need to find a way to make things faster, bigger, better. These are only better to me when they are used for spiritual growth and relieve pain and illness these ambitions are directed toward the wrong target.
I agrees with Kass' principal extermination of genetic disease would be the only benefit to me for cloning but this alone does not justify the long term effects it could on the clone themselves and the effects it could on humanity. We would not need the opposite sex. Family structure could become extinct, leading to problems that we would not know how to handle. If children that come from single parent homes struggle more imagine coming from a single parent home and being a clone. How we would be equipped to counsel or guide those children if you are not a clone yourself, we could never fully understand.
Kass's was more consistent with my principles. I believe that having children naturally and trying to conserve the little structure and value society puts on family today should be bigger goal than trying to have copies of ourselves all over the world.
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http://lukedemuro.blogspot.com and http://bunchoblogs.blogspot.com
You and I seem to share a similar viewpoint on the matter of human cloning. I had never really given the topic much thought before this class either, and even until reading your article, I didn't really fathom that it would change quite literally everything. From laws, to family structure, to the way humans view procreation and life in general. So many things will become obsolete. I really don't believe that the pros of human cloning outweigh the cons; everything we know would have to be changed to accommodate it. Yes, the extermination of genetic disease would be great, but I realized after reading your blog that this implies that if the average human had a child with Down's Syndrome, one would generally love them less, and that is not okay with me.
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