Using Argument and Persuasion in Writng - Essay Example

Human Cloning is a Crime Against Humanity While I was doing research for this paper, I came across the 2005 Hollywood movie The Island whose story centers around the life of human clones who were designed for medical purposes of their original selves. These clones were created using state of the art technology and did not carry any memories of the lives of the human being they were modeled after. They lived the life of normal people and did normal human activities such as eating, and exercising, even socializing.

They never knew that they were going to die once the person that paid for their existence finally came to need their body parts. Even though this story was only the figment of writer Caspian Tredwell-Owens imagination. It is not something that is too far from the reality that we currently face in the fight to prevent the cloning of human beings. The proponents of Human Cloning do so in the name of science. Their stand being that by cloning humans, we will gain the much needed medical advantage and understanding of illnesses and easily be able to avert, cure, or create person specific vaccines for the recipients of Human Cloning technology.

Although these supporters have sound and valid arguments, they fail to see that Human Clones are just as their name implies, human beings. Even though they are the final product of a highly complicated medical science, it does not erase the fact that these people shall, in the future, be born into this world as innocents. They will experience life and live their lives until some doctor tells them they can no longer live because their body parts are now needed. In other words, Human cloning turns their creators, the doctors and clone nurturers into gods.

Having the power to give and take a life at their own convenience and hide the murder of another human being behind the cloak of medical science and technological advancement. Man was not created in a manner that he can be allowed by natural forces to live forever. Our bodies were not designed to be like car parts that can be replaced once it is worn down. Transplant technology is one thing. Such a technology is governed by rules and often comes from donors who are no longer part of this world.

Such an argument cannot be used in support of human cloning. It is one thing to take a perfectly good body part from a person whom you know no longer has any use for it and another to harvest a body part from an exact genetic replica of a person in order to save his life. Think about it. What good is it to save the life of one if it means that another must die in order for it to happen? Exactly how does medical science plan to break the news to a genetic clone that he is not allowed to live anymore because he was created at the expense of the person he looks like, who has a medical condition that needed a perfect DNA match donor in order to save his life?

How do you tell another human being, and that is exactly what a genetic human clone is, that it is time for him to die whether he likes it or not? Simple answer, you cant. Unless you have murderous instincts and take pride in ending the lives of innocent human beings. The arguments above may sound very harsh, even far-fetched for some. But the reality is that human cloning is just around the corner, being kept at bay only by our government rules and regulations. However, those rules may eventually get overruled.

Human cloning may one day become legal and as such, those clones need to have their rights protected as well. Otherwise, this will be the worst crime against humanity. For we are not god. We do not have the right to give a life and then take it on the basis of medical need. They are human beings too, not lab rats. Work CitedBioNews. “Cloning People is a Crime Against Humanity”. BioNews. 20 Nov. 2003. Web. 14 Aug. 2011Bostrom, Nick PhD. “Human Reproductive Cloning From the Perspective of the Future”.

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