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It depends a bit on what the clone is made for. If someone just wants a child identical to some other human for esthetic reasons, the ethics seem mostly ok. Th
by tsimionescu 3y ago
It depends a bit on what the clone is made for.
If someone just wants a child identical to some other human for esthetic reasons, the ethics seem mostly ok. The biggest ethical concern here would be obtaining true consent from the person being cloned, probably.
But the typical interests in creating a clone are related to exploitation of the clone without regard to their own desires. Simple organ harvesting is a popular reason to desire a clone. More indirect forms of exploitation are also thought about, like a company creating a clone of, say, Elvis Presley to sell his image, or someone creating a clone of a dead/aging lover as an ultimate form of child grooming.
- causality0 3y agoI don't personally see anything wrong with modifying a zygote's genetic code to create a body without a brain and then harvesting it for organs. Much more moral than meat farming, even.
- Vox_Leone 3y ago"Six is having problems adjusting to his clone status (...) All day long we hear him crying so loud 'I just wanna be myself! I just wanna be myself'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1h38gC23bw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1h38gC23bw
- c22 3y ago> ...or someone creating a clone of a dead/aging lover as an ultimate form of child grooming. Or the somehow worse sounding prospect of someone doing this with a clone of someone who was not their lover, say Elvis.
- ivalm 3y agoI think the simplest desire for cloning is propagation of one's own genetic code. I strongly believe that these clones should be accorded all the privileges and rights of normal humans.