cloning
...ld, the creation of a family that would not otherwise have existed, has become so hated and misunderstood, remains almost beyond my comprehension.” (Description) Another persuasive reason that cloning is beneficial to humanity is that it would cure diseases. One of the most important facts in disease is that we do not have the technology to find a cure to the problem. “How can a civilized society turn its back on the diseases, sickness and suffering of its own people? Is a microscopic cleaving egg, four days after fertilization, really more important that curing your father's Alzheimer's, your mother's Parkinson's, or your son's diabetes? And before you answer, realize that the diseases I have mentioned are but the tip of the iceberg.” Mr. Waite mentions in his article. (Example) The benefits of cloning are much more numerous than the arguments against it. There are huge waiting lists for organ transplants. Even when a person finds the donor, the body's immune system may reject the new organ. With cloning, these people will not keep waiting and suffering for a successful organ transplant. Would you turn down a cloned organ if it could save your life? Another example of a benefit is this: imagine if you were sterile, for one reason or another. I think it would be horrible to know that no matter what you did, you would never be able to reproduce, or to have a child to raise and love. Cloning could solve this problem. There are many people out there that would love to be able to reproduce no matter what the cost. Human cloning technology could be used to reverse heart attacks too. Scientists believe that they may be able to treat heart attack victims by cloning their healthy heart cells and injecting them into the areas of the heart that have been damaged (Simon Smith, par. 2). Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States and several other industrialized countries. (Example) Finally, the most important reason that cloning is beneficial to humanity is that it would enable us to take a giant step towards our immortality. Wouldn’t it be great if you did not have to worry about getting old, or dying? Well with human cloning this is all-possible. Dr. Richard Seed, one of the leading proponents of human cloning technology, states that “it is possible to reverse the aging process because of what we learn from cloning. Cloning would help reverse aging by teaching us how to set our age back to 20.” This is possible because each time a cell is cloned it is treated as a new cell with the age zero. Therefore, cloning would enable human beings to copy their cells and have the new ones with the age zero implanted into them when they are older. This would make them feel as if they were 20, but they really are 65. This would allow humans to live to an age that they want, and when they are ready, they can choose to die, with some exceptions that are unavoidable death. Human cloning would allow us to essentially live forever. This would eliminate the fear of old age and death. (Description) Some people would suggest that cloning is unnatural and not ethically correct but so would be talking medicine when you fall sick. The whole of the modern medicine world in based on unnaturalness, so it seems cloning would be part of that modern medicine world. Some people also suggest that clones of human beings would behave in different ways than a normal human being would however t...