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Thursday, March 28, 2019

Do you agree with Kass's feeling of disgust and his proposed ban of all therapeutic and reproductive cloning? He provides four reasons for his position -- which do you find the most persuasive and which do you find the weakest?

                       Topic:Summary and Analysis of Kass's"Preventing a Brave New World"


              The Future of Humanity

All contemporary societies have almost the same utopia. They all want to continue in the light of modern science. The purpose of all is that people want to live in a more prosperous and better environment. However, humanity wants to live in better conditions and always harms the nature and the environment. From the treatment of very serious diseases to human cloning, the production of a lost organ as a prosthesis to stem cell transplant, we can understand that it has reached very high points in our modern day. In the future, researchers and industrial companies have begun to focus more on human cloning and human embryo selection. In the near future we will hear and see many developments about human cloning, embryo preferences, human genetic structure.
Huxley described humanity in the 7th century. In Huxley's description, Huxley mentions that thanks to high medical technology, people will have more success in getting rid of illness, lacking emotional suffering, war-free life and human science. According to Huxley, as a result of these achievements, the disappearance of natural and pure life means that people will return to more soulless and senseless. Isn't it like our new world is talking about Huxley? Due to advancing technology, we now use more technological tools. We can see this everywhere: at work, at school, at home, at the subway or on the road, we can see that each of us is surrounded by technological means, and that people miss the old sincerity and love. Although this does not seem to be very good for most people, this is very good for companies in the economic environment.
In the new world, we are now at the point of human clone production. Previously, they tried this with the sheep Dolly on the animal. But Dolly could live 6 years. It was just the first test. The main goal was to produce a human clone, and this was the first attempt to create a human clone through media. Maybe there have been more clone trials that we don't know about. Who knows!! This will be soon. I don't know if the clones to be used can live for 6 years like Sheep Dolly, but we will see human clones in the near future.
Anyone who wants will also have the chance to create the child they want with the human embryo. It's a bit like mixing God's work, but unfortunately, we will soon see these situations. However, there is a discussion of human cloning. It is discussed that this is not moral and has many big risks. On the one hand, it is mentioned that there may be technological developments that may usher in a new epoch the history of humanity. In addition, there is a possibility that information on unknowns about human genetics and treatment of serious diseases can be learned. However, these human clones and other embryonic investigations will allow experiments to be performed for different purposes. This will lead to the creation of a secret research that the government cannot follow. In this respect, it is a little risky. The person will have a chosen child and there will be something like breeding freedom. So parents will have a child without a sex. They will have the embryo of another person they will have children. In other words, they will have a child who does not have the genetic structure of the parents. As the child grows up, it turns out that their mother and father do not have their genes, and perhaps this will create a great problem between the family or a better situation. This means that we will see the families who grew up the children who do not carry the genes of their parents. Human clone production and human embryos are not accepted in countries around the world. For example, five states in the US forbade it. This is the same in European countries, so it is not seen as an acceptable situation on the world at this time. However, the production of stem cell and tissue needed for the treatment of people is allowed. Human clone production is not possible for the moment. For the moment, we have people and children of our own genes. I don't know what happens to the future. I wish a world to have our own children, not someone else's embryo.
 I agree with Kass's disgust. According to the summary of Kass's article above, I found Kass's suggested 4 reasons against cloning ban of all therapeutic and reproductive. These are: It is an unethical experimentation, it threatens the identity and individuality, it turns into procreation, it means despotism over children and perversion of parenthood. The most convincing of these reasons is that it will be very cruel for animals and people who will die as a result of unethical experiments. The threat of identity and individuality is also a good reason for convincing. To have a child whose genetic structure belongs to someone else. For example, Imagine that a mother chicken is a mother to a duckling. As a result, ducks and chickens are a genus of birds. But their genetic structure is completely different from each other. Living and learning are two genera that are completely different from each other. In this example, the two species that belong to the same bird family but have different genetic differences. This is likewise similar to parenting to another child with different genes and characteristics in the human family. Our children, who have our own genes, will be our own product, which we have our own genetic structure and properties. The weakest of the reasons for Kass is for me to be against human clone production. I think a human clone should be produced. However, strict inspections and controls must be in their surroundings and should be completely moral. If this is done in this way, it may allow us to reach great conclusions in finding treatment for serious diseases.

                                                                   Written by Erdogan Akbiyik

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