According to the National Geographic Society, “Cloning is a technique scientists use to make exact genetic copies of living things. Genes, cells, tissues, and even whole animals can all be cloned.”
Dolly the sheep was the first-ever mammal that was successfully cloned by scientists. Ever since then, people have been debating for a long time arguing whether we should continue this practice and research in the field of cloning. I believe that we should continue cloning animals, excluding humans, plants, and other endangered populations. This is all under one condition: NO ROBOTS WITH CONSCIOUSNESS IN CHARGE OF THE OPERATION.
To begin with, cloning endangered populations could save them from being extinct. Some animals that could benefit from cloning include the blue whale, axolotl, northern white rhinoceros, and more others. I believe that leaving them in a conservation park will not work, because some of the animals are endangered to the rate where they could not reproduce at all like the northern white rhinoceros. Even in the park, poachers still can sneak inside and harm the animals. As a result, putting animals in captivity and cloning them in a lab will be a better choice.
On the other hand, I believe that cloning humans will be a horrendous idea because we humans have already taken up too much space and supplies from the Earth. If we clone ourselves, we will have more mouths to feed and climate change will be more serious than before. Consider this, what if you have 10 duplicates of yourselves, and 20 angry moms chasing you around with their slippers? That to anyone will be absolute mayhem.
However, more ethical issues need to be discussed about human cloning. There is a possibility of cloning a deformed human, they might have 10 hands, 20 eyeballs, a horse body, a lion’s head, and much more different issues might occur to the smallest error in cloning a human. Furthermore, they might have unknown or different personalities that are maybe dangerous to society. Lastly, who knows, they evolved to be more intelligent than us, at that point who will we blame?
In conclusion, I believe we should continue the field of cloning but with several conditions, NO CLONING HUMANS, and NO CONSCIOUS ROBOTS TAKING CHARGE OF THE OPERATIONS.
