Maybe I'm in the minority, but I just don't share the ethical problem that many people have with human cloning. That's not to say that I think we should populate the world with replicas of ourselves and dead relatives (which strikes me as cruel to the cloned individuals). But given the possibility of treating and curing diseases by harvesting cloned embryos and stem cells, it would be unethical not to exploit this technology...at least in my humble opinion.Such is the debate that continues to rage, as it was announced that a scientist has managed to clone himself, creating embryos that were smaller than a pinhead and survived for five days.
It seems that those who object to human cloning fall into two camps: those with religious issues, claiming that we are treading on "God's Turf," and those who fear the science will lead us to the world of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, where babies are harvested in the laboratory. In other words, the objections come from those who fear science, and those who oppose it.
I tend to wonder how members of either camp would respond if faced with an illness and offered a cure that required human cloning to implement?
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