Thursday, March 23, 2017

Clones?

While reading Never Let Me Go, I didn't have any thoughts about cloning being a negative thing. It seems to work well in the novel, and I'm not for harvesting the organs of cloned children but throughout the story, clones seem pretty useful. After reading the articles on cloning, I began to imagine what it would actually be like to have clones in the real world. In novels, it's easy to read about how effortlessly they meld with the world around them but in real life, there are a lot more possibilities to take into consideration. 

I have decided I'm against cloning. As one of the articles points out, we wouldn't really need to cherish and take good care of our environment because we could reproduce whatever animals die out. While we may not lose the creatures on earth, our actual planet would still suffer and it would be easier than ever to ignore it. Cloning would also make evolution virtually impossible because negative traits would no longer die out and would just be continually reintroduced to the gene pool. We would all suffer more than we would benefit. 

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