Summary Of Preventing Brave New World By Mr. Kass

Most people would concede that cloning and genetic enhancements are two notorious words that most would not consent with. In Mr. Kass’s article “Preventing Brave New World” commences on the astonishing achievements in bio-medical science and technology. Mr. Leon E. Kass agrees that people should be obliged for the breakthrough of advanced bio medical science and technology. Mr. Kass’s incredible work in bio-ethical science has placed this very well known philosopher in the white house with the Bush’s administration. Mr. Kass mentions in his article that we live in a world where transforming powers are already being applied in the 20th century, For example; In vitro fertilization, bottled embryos wombs, surrogate wombs, cloning, genetic screening,
Kass mentions his four different objections of why cloning should not be performed and the reason they should completely stop researching and experimenting. On the first premises he mentions that it’s an unethical experimentation on the unborn. His reason behind this statement is that it is unethical and too risky to perform such experiment on the unborn child. Mr. Kass mentions that less than 2-3% of cloning attempts succeeded. Moreover, many of the cloned animals that did survive were born with deformities like cows with heart and lung problems and animals not reaching their normal developmental milestone. It is without much doubt that cloning humans would begin on a trial in error. A scientist discovered that a nucleus of an unaltered egg is formed and arranged through months or years as in an altered egg it must reprogram within minutes or hours. Thus, this is why there is a high chance of developmental defects. Mr. Leon E. Kass doesn’t believe in this type of research and believes strictly that cloning should not be permitted because of its unethical experimentation to the unborn child. His second premises, he makes it clear that it threatens identity and Individuality. The reasons behind this statement are that clones, as he mentions, would experience concerns about their own self and appearance; being identical to another person whose genotype is the same. Moreover, He mentions about issues with mixing parents with twin relation and the issues of having too
Kass On his idea of human cloning being an unethical experimentation on the unborn and that it is too risky for such procedure. Everything in science begins with one step. Eventually progress will continue and science will be perfected. There is a first for everything. The first IVF was scary and dangerous but something amazing came out of that experiment, a perfectly and healthy human being. I also disagree with Kass about it threatens individuality and turns procreation into manufacture. I strongly believe that even if people have the same genotype and look the same as the original person that there will be no conflict of individuality. Society and environment molds people in how they should behave. I believe, society and the culture in where you are raised molds you to the person you are today. Your Moral and ethical reasoning are mostly due to culture roots, meaning, where you were born. Even if you are a clone you do not have expectation to meet nor do you have to live the life of others but solely yours. One may try to argue that wouldn’t parents want to have a cloned child from an original all star basketball legend? My answer is sure you can. However, having high expectations even if that clone is a copy of a legend doesn’t mean that clone is going to follow the same footsteps as the original. Maybe the clone decides to play baseball instead of basketball and still excels because what he is actually good at is “sports” in general. Moreover,