Cloning Should Not Be Acceptable in the Future

Cloning should not be Acceptable in the Future

Recently, a piece of news reported that Russian and South Korean scientists signed a deal on Tuesday on joint research intended to recreate a woolly mammoth, an animal which last walked the earth some 10,000 years ago. (The Telegraph) Recreating the mammoth can not come true without the technology of cloning. The technology of cloning has become an indispensible program of modern biology because cloning or genetics is developing toward molecular biology which is the new important project of modern biological technology. However, the problems of cloning are becoming more and more, and people do not stop arguing the problems from the birth of cloning. Individual cloning is probable the most argumentative problem. Individual cloning should be limited or banned in the rest of 21st century because it may caused many serious and unpredictable problems such as stealing gene and cloning weapons. Cloning also may shock the structure of human society and cause many ethical issues which need people to think and argue for a long time. Living in a peace and stable world is the same dream of the majority of people, so facing and arguing the tough problems of cloning is necessary in the rest of 21st century.

To begin with, clone man is difficult to be defined. The identity of clone man is very vague in the society; is the clone man human or machine? People often are confused. Ebon is obviously a man of many interests. Known best for his books on parapsychology and communism, he attempted to bring us up to date on cloning. Ebon’s descriptions of transplantation techniques are confusing, and he makes an occasional careless error (as when he refers to a frog as a reptile). More successful is his investigation into the religious, literary, psychological, parapsychological basis for man’s pursuit of a “double.” Cloning may damage ourselves in our final. (Library Journal 103) Furthermore, the self-identity of clone man is very difficult. Are the clone men the copies of other people or new individuals? The self-identity and consciousness are parts of the mentality, and they seem to be related to the body and brain physiologically; in other words, gene can make proteins which are the foundations of body and brain, and the mind or consciousness are generated by brain, so the physiology and psychology have some unknown connections; the connections are still a popular study of today’s psychology. If the first clone man would come to the world, how would he/she recognize her/his self-identity, and should they have their own consciousness or follow the consciousness of the gene donor? Clone man does not exist now, and no one can answer the question, but clone man is still a living being and he/she should has right to acquire his/her own consciousness.

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