Question 2
Michael Tooley’s article “Moral Status of Cloning Humans” aims at supporting the cloning of human beings. However, cloning has elicited mixed reactions in the pubic majorly form religious bodies which have even campaigned against its use. However, Tooley views human cloning as a tool in the trans-humanist’s arsenal.
Cloning is regarded as being morally wrong because every individual has a right to a genetically unique nature and future that is open. However, being unique is essential, and in most cases, the deterministic law (environment and genes) si what makes people identical, and at times, it is by chance as seen in the case of an identical twin. The deterministic law is what bothers most people, unlike by chance. However, Tooley believes that most people do not like the laws, not that because the people might have some form of uniqueness, but instead, they have some negative attitude towards determinism. Tooley states cloning will lead to the production of identical people, as in the case of twins.
In the case of twins, it shows that no individual has a right to a unique genome, and no one is usually bothered by the fact that having twins might be wrong or right. In this case, no right is violated in the case a clone is made. The individuality of a person will not be in any way violated because another person has a similar genome to you. Tooley supports that by having an original pair of individuals who can produce themselves through cloning is better than undergoing evolution or even mating. This shall help individuals such as homosexuals who would like to have children. Additionally, infertile couples can also have a chance to get children and also help in saving countless lives by cloning individuals with perfectly compatible organs. This means that there is no difference between identical twins and human clones.
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