Time Now for Cloning

Cody Flores, staff writer

 

With all the benefits of cloning, it should be used to it’s full potential.

 

It has its good and bad points, however. The bad points don’t make sense, so the cloning process must take full effect immediately.

 

Despite the cost of living, it still remains very popular, and hey, nobody wants to die. Let’s say that you are 

dying though, and need an expensive organ that no one is willing to fork over. You beg your family and friends, 

but they don’t care enough to help you out. If cloning was legalized, then you would be saved! How about that?

If cloning can save lives, it is a good thing. Why get all hot and bothered over something that can save people? A lot of people say it is ethically and morally wrong. I don’t think it is wrong to help someone when they can be helped. Don’t look the other way when your friend is getting beat up; help him out.

The technology is right in front of our faces. We must use it. We seem to think that the sooner we fall behind, the more time we’ll have to catch up. But that isn’t how it works. How come whenever technology beats a path to our door, we are always in the bathroom? Why is it when we are finally holding all the cards, everyone decides to play chess?

People die from disease and organ failure everyday. If we just use the power of cloning for good, we could be saving people everyday. Doctors can do something with tissue or DNA or something complicated like that and develop a new, improved organ to throw inside you and get everything working like new. It’s kind of like putting new batteries in your remote control.

When I was a little kid, I had a little dog named Sparky. He was a black Chihuahua and the family had him for many years. I would spend hours in the backyard playing with him. But one day Sparky got loose, and I later found out he got ran over by a truck going down the road. I would have given anything to get him back. Well, with cloning it could have been possible. Doctors could have had a new dog in my backyard before I knew what hit him.

Keeping with this line of thinking, what about endangered species? With the power of cloning, it can be made possible to keep these animals alive. Species are dying out in record rates, and with the power of cloning they can be saved.  

What I am against is the cloning of whole humans. That is just wrong. To clone for health reasons and pet reasons is one thing, but cloning just to clone is crazy. Creating an exact copy of yourself just so you can get more done in the workplace is a stupid thing.

I believe that cloning can help people if used properly and efficiently. It can help to save lives. It can bring back pets. It can save endangered species. It is good and must be used as soon as possible.