PHILOS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 40: Ebers Papyrus, Cloning, Safe Sex
22 Apr 2016
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Because we aught to look out for the outcome of human beings because it has it has significant impacts upon their lives. Because we allow parents to submit their children to already dangerous experiments, parents should be allowed to create a child out of a dangerous experiment. (not a clear argument already existing versus non existent being) Natural reproduction comes with it"s dangers, we should see that there isn"t anything wrong with the threat of cloning. Cloning a human being is bad because it psychologically endangers the cloned child. Another concern is that clones will somehow be dehumanized based on the manufacturing method of creating them. However, if you can value someone enough as means to your own end. Final argument has to do with that when we clone a child, we are a master over a slave. Discusses identical twins, even though someone is physically similar there is no guarantee that they will be the exact same.
