Ethics of human cloning

It diminishes the clone 's possibility of living a life that is in a full sense of that word his or her life . The clone is forced to be involved in an attempt to perform a complicated partial re-enactment of the life of somebody else (the original (Holm , 1998 ,

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This means that while people usually claim for the importance of the moral principles of respect for individual autonomy or the power to make a decision for oneself without influence from outside , people are violating these principles by robbing clones this opportunity

to live their lives in the way they want . The way the clones were produced will putt them in a position where they are living in a shadow . However , even if this claim is true that clones would 'live in the shadow ' of their genetic 'originals , it is not obvious that this fact should compel people to prohibit human cloning

Arguments that compel people to consider the well-being of a resulting child are questionable . It has been claimed that a person is only wronged by being brought to birth if he /she has a life 'so bad that it would be a cruelty rather than a kindness to bring it into existence (Bennett and Harris , 2002 ,

. 323 . This kind of unfortunate existence is sometimes characterized as an 'unworthwhile life . An 'unworthwhile life would be a life of extremely negative experience and worsening Other lives that may be not perfect , but not so worthless as to deprive that individual of an amazing experience of living , are termed 'worthwhile lives . In this regard , the statement is that as long as a person is likely to have a 'worthwhile life ' he /she is not disadvantaged by being brought to birth . Thus , even if a human clone is likely to...