Kimmo Huosionmaa
In many movies, the cloning of human being is strictly prohibited, and this kind of things are very difficult to think. We have the technology for that kind of actions, and somebody claims, that some of the most brilliant scientific geniuses have been cloned. The cloning is a very simple process, we must just take the fetus, what is in one cell level and suck the genomes out of the nucleus, and replace that with another genome, what is taken from other organisms.
And that thing works with humans as well as other mammals. But there are many juridical and ethical problems with that thing, and one is, how we deal with the clone? Would we treat it like other children, and another thing is that the biometric identifiers with the clone and the original person would be identical. That makes a threat, that in some country would be made clone about some military commander, and that clone would be used to replace that person. In this operation, the original commander would be murdered and the clone would replace this person.
But there are persons who claim, that human cloning would take the fear of death from humans. And that kind of things are giving many ideas for some movies, where some "horrible person" would execute, and this person would make the clone about self. That thing is very interesting, and same time horrible point of view of this thing. But this kind of things are possible, and when we are thinking about the marginal persons, they don't care about laws and orders.
When we are thinking about cloning, we are facing the thing, that what we should do, if that thing is done? Have we got moral or ethic right to justify some person to death, because we think that the person is a clone? Is that reason to kill somebody? And how we can prove that somebody is cloned if the original person has been lost. Also, we can think, how to prove that the person is a clone if we see only one person?
There is medical disease known as progeria, what means that person would get elder really fast. In some discussions, there is meant, that some scientists are investigating the thing, that the virus would connect the progeria genome to the cells of the person, what makes this human getting elder faster. And when the person looks like old enough, the progeria genome would be removed from the cells. This makes possible to create the copy also from some mature person. But this text is meant also for philosophical thinking.
In many movies, the cloning of human being is strictly prohibited, and this kind of things are very difficult to think. We have the technology for that kind of actions, and somebody claims, that some of the most brilliant scientific geniuses have been cloned. The cloning is a very simple process, we must just take the fetus, what is in one cell level and suck the genomes out of the nucleus, and replace that with another genome, what is taken from other organisms.
And that thing works with humans as well as other mammals. But there are many juridical and ethical problems with that thing, and one is, how we deal with the clone? Would we treat it like other children, and another thing is that the biometric identifiers with the clone and the original person would be identical. That makes a threat, that in some country would be made clone about some military commander, and that clone would be used to replace that person. In this operation, the original commander would be murdered and the clone would replace this person.
But there are persons who claim, that human cloning would take the fear of death from humans. And that kind of things are giving many ideas for some movies, where some "horrible person" would execute, and this person would make the clone about self. That thing is very interesting, and same time horrible point of view of this thing. But this kind of things are possible, and when we are thinking about the marginal persons, they don't care about laws and orders.
When we are thinking about cloning, we are facing the thing, that what we should do, if that thing is done? Have we got moral or ethic right to justify some person to death, because we think that the person is a clone? Is that reason to kill somebody? And how we can prove that somebody is cloned if the original person has been lost. Also, we can think, how to prove that the person is a clone if we see only one person?
There is medical disease known as progeria, what means that person would get elder really fast. In some discussions, there is meant, that some scientists are investigating the thing, that the virus would connect the progeria genome to the cells of the person, what makes this human getting elder faster. And when the person looks like old enough, the progeria genome would be removed from the cells. This makes possible to create the copy also from some mature person. But this text is meant also for philosophical thinking.
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