Views on Cloning 对克隆的看法

Views on Cloning

Almost everyone would agree that the birth of Dolly, as the first clone of an adult animal, has opened a new way of seeing the creation of life for the world. But this agreement ceases to exist just when it comes to whether cloning will bring fortunes or misfortunes to human society.

Many contend that the merits of cloning will outrun its demerits. They base their contention on the grounds that cloning is the most effective method of saving the rare wild lives from dying out. Besides, as they also point out, cloning can help provide better ways to treat some serious or deadly sicknesses, such as diabetes, and Parkinson’s disease. Yet others react to the issue the other way around and hold that the opposite is just reasonable. From their angle of view, cloning will threaten the ecological balance by destroying the natural reproduction through the enjoyment of sexual love between the male and the female. And even worse, as they reveal, cloning will bring greater disasters to human society if it is used in creation of individuals with extreme genetic qualities, like terrorists, desperate scoundrels, and war manias.

I stick to the opinion that anything new, including cloning, can bring human society fortunes or misfortunes, all depending on how it is exploited. On the one hand, it will be an inestimable blessing to the human world if it is applied to reproduction of best dairy cows or other choice domestic poultries. But on the other hand, it will form a big threat to human society once it is abused in copying those hostile toward humanity. In short, the solution to the problem is always within man’s reach.