Cloning Ethical Dilemmas
The ethical dilemmas of cloning extinct species have been a futile argument that will never have a correct or incorrect answer. There are many different arguments whose viewpoints can help persuade one’s opinion on this matter such as utilitarianism, ethical egoism, social contract theory, Natural Law Theory, Divine Command Theory, and Kantian Ethics. Each different theory is capable of giving us premises to support or dispute this dilemma of cloning extinct species. For example, Vaughn would say it’s morally right looking at the Utilitarian viewpoint because an extinct species like the passenger pigeons may each mosquito’s and insects, which will help to assist with the over population of mosquito’s. Two very popular extinct species that are
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Anthropogenic means the extinction is caused by human actions. For example, species like the Bengal tiger, primarily in India and black rhino on the coast of east Africa. The Bengal tiger makes the endangered list and the black rhino makes the critically endangered because of early hunter’s. Bringing back some already extinct will give justice to those who promote conservation.
Re-establishing lost value is another argument to bring back some lost value over hundreds of years. Instead of digging to explore the worlds history, scientists are now capable of cloning dinosaur age creatures per say, as long as the DNA is sufficient. If science were to clone dinosaurs to keep in captivity, they can learn more than human kind has ever known about them.
Cloning the extinct is unethical and morally impermissible based on the premises discussed in this paper. The two largest reasons being that the population on earth is growing too rapidly as it is and if we start cloning, it could lead to cloning uncontrollably and therefore going to run out resource more quickly. The size and quantity of farms is also rapidly decreasing, so a good thing to use cloning for is plants and consumable animals. The second being the animal welfare concerns. It is known that cloning anything can cause deformity and early death. Voluntarily bringing many new lives onto this planet with a risk of deformity and nothing but a miserable life is
Anthropogenic means the extinction is caused by human actions. For example, species like the Bengal tiger, primarily in India and black rhino on the coast of east Africa. The Bengal tiger makes the endangered list and the black rhino makes the critically endangered because of early hunter’s. Bringing back some already extinct will give justice to those who promote conservation.
Re-establishing lost value is another argument to bring back some lost value over hundreds of years. Instead of digging to explore the worlds history, scientists are now capable of cloning dinosaur age creatures per say, as long as the DNA is sufficient. If science were to clone dinosaurs to keep in captivity, they can learn more than human kind has ever known about them.
Cloning the extinct is unethical and morally impermissible based on the premises discussed in this paper. The two largest reasons being that the population on earth is growing too rapidly as it is and if we start cloning, it could lead to cloning uncontrollably and therefore going to run out resource more quickly. The size and quantity of farms is also rapidly decreasing, so a good thing to use cloning for is plants and consumable animals. The second being the animal welfare concerns. It is known that cloning anything can cause deformity and early death. Voluntarily bringing many new lives onto this planet with a risk of deformity and nothing but a miserable life is