Human Cloning and Ethics

Webster’s dictionary defines ethics as, “the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation.” With this moral duty and obligation, people are designed to take intelligence, and provide good usage to those things that will better life and the society around it. With all the technology of today, we have taken a beautiful thing in creation, and turned it into a mockery of sorts, by playing the role of the creator. With this, the process has begun; cloning humans is becoming a rising ethical conflict in the world today. It is left to those people who will be the leaders of tomorrow who will decide what is ethical and unethical.

Cloning is the creation of living matter such as a cell or an organism. The copies of these certain things are known as clones. Cloning began thousand of years ago in simple ways, such as a cutting of a plant and letting it root make another plant. Early farmers devised breeding techniques to reproduce plants with such char...