Instigator / Con
7
1500
rating
1
debates
100.0%
won
Topic
#5409
Human cloning is not an ethical thing
Status
Finished
The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.
Winner & statistics
After 1 vote and with 7 points ahead, the winner is...
ThewsyRum
Parameters
- Publication date
- Last updated date
- Type
- Standard
- Number of rounds
- 5
- Time for argument
- Two hours
- Max argument characters
- 10,000
- Voting period
- One week
- Point system
- Multiple criterions
- Voting system
- Open
Contender / Pro
0
1309
rating
270
debates
40.74%
won
Description
Human cloning is the process of producing a genetically identical copy of a human being. (just so it doesn't go blank)
Round 1
Creating genetically identical people is a serious violation of human rights. We are treating lives as commodities by producing copies. This undermines fundamental human individuality. Life is unique, not a simple replication of genes.
Clones are beings that do not choose to be born; made to fulfill the desires of others. Lives without autonomy, vulnerable from the beginning. Created by external wills, with no control over themselves.
Human cloning can lead to exploitation. Without ethical rules, cloning can create armies of clones for military purposes. Or produce tailored humans for dangerous or degrading work. This is a disturbing concern of human cloning.
Human cloning also challenges basic ideas about family and parenting. How would clones be viewed and treated in relation to their "originals"? Would they have the same rights and social status? These issues can cause divisions and conflicts in society, weakening social cohesion and stability.
Are clones individual beings, with their own experiences and free will, or simply soulless copies?
How is that different from regular reproduction?
Round 2
How is that different from regular reproduction?
Did I write a huge text for this? But everything is fine
- Natural reproduction involves two different individuals, each contributing genetic material to create a new, unique being. This process is based on genetic diversity and randomness, reflecting the richness of human experience and natural genetic variation. Two distinct human beings, man and woman, unite their genes to generate an unprecedented individual. This random mixing of characteristics generates a new, unique genetic combination. Regular reproduction is based on this diversity and unpredictability
- In human cloning, a person provides all the genetic material to create a genetically identical clone. This process removes any genetic diversity and randomness normally present in natural reproduction. In conventional reproduction, each individual is the unique result of a combination of genes and environmental influences, which makes each human being unique. With cloning, this uniqueness is lost, as the clone is an exact copy of an already existing individual.
How is that different from regular reproduction?
Round 3
Do you know how to debate? Isn't there another more plausible or more elaborate argument for this?
Human cloning prevents genetic differences. It destroys randomness of reproduction. It results in identical individuals. This threatens human uniqueness. It also threatens the variety of human experience.
Was that it, man?
Human cloning is not yet a practice carried out on a large scale due to "ethical issues" and complexity.
But the process would be more or less like this:
- It would collect cells from an adult's body, done through a biopsy procedure.
- An unfertilized egg must have its original nucleus removed, becoming an enucleated egg. This empty container sets the stage for the next phase.
- The donor somatic cell nucleus would then be inserted into the enucleated egg
- The enucleated egg with the new nucleus would then be stimulated to divide and develop into an embryo. Once the embryo reaches a suitable stage of development, it could be implanted into a surrogate mother's uterus or incubated in vitro.
Meanwhile, in regular reproduction, two biologically distinct individuals contribute half of their genetic material each to form a new being. The new individual then has a unique combination of genes, resulting from the mixing of his parents' genes.
How is that different from regular reproduction?
Round 4
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Round 5
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Forfeited
Its strange that I lost this, given that my opponent agreed with my side.