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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Lane3 who wrote (38710)11/26/2001 10:01:12 AM
From: thames_sider  Read Replies (10) of 82486
 
What is the overriding ethical problem with cloning?

I can see a few issues such as what legal rights a clone would/should have, not to mention more philosophical issues around the nature of identity. Neither greatly interest me.

But I can't see why it's so critically important that humans cannot be cloned, nor why so much of the opposition seems to be from the religious.
Is there some idea that someone cloned would be lacking a soul? Seems rather medieval. Or is it viewed as trespassing on divine prerogative...?
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