Sorry for my absence but exams have taken their tole more than i would have wanted to. In this post i'll add a few things about the cloning "mater" and about "life" in general.
I have fought about the real use of human cloning in our society and i couldn't really find one. The In Vitro Fertilization is far more effective and cheap than cloning. Dolly was the only one success in a few hundreds tries. And even after the procedure was completed, creating a clone still requires a very high numbers of trials and errors. I can only see a use for human clones in colonizing the outer space. And even for that we could use robots. So why would we need a human clone ? I think that because it's something that we can't really do, and humans are like that. If there is something that is out of their reach, they'll do anything and everything to get it.
By the way, there are those that think that cloning a human would be outside of God's will. Or even better we would try to "play God".
I don't remember from the "Ten Commandments" that we are forbidden to "create life" or not even to "copy" it. So how is it against God's will to do anything that will not harm anyone (considering that cloning is a safe procedure that will not harm anyone). If truth should be told i don't think that God "gave" us intelligence so it may be wasted and not used because some thing that the man upstairs didn't want us to use it ... If we are bound by our ancestral sin then a clone would be released by it because he/she would come to life not from the "love" between man and woman and so the chain would be broken.
Oh and about the cliche "we are playing God", i want to ask you when have we stopped playing God? Think about this... we decide who dies or lives, we have mastered the destructive force that lays in the stars and we're trying to bring back to life beings that are long dead (the dinosaurs etc). Isn't killing something playing God ? Isn't creating Antibiotics to heal ourselves from diseases playing God ? Isn't judging equivalent to playing God ? Didn't Jesus Christ said "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again" ???
But no, they say that humans are "playing God" only when we're talking about creating life, or trying to copy it and learn the mysteries of it.
We are trying to solve new problems with old solutions. We think of ourselves as a society that keeps evolving. Well i think that reality is not quite like that. Technological progress without mental one will never lead to evolution. It's like when we're replacing old computers with new ones but using the same obsolete operating system. We need to sharpen our mind too.
And how about human instrumentalization (using the human being as a tool). Well until every thing in this world will be automatized then the human will never stop from being a tool (either for himself or for someone else). And anyone that thinks otherwise is lying to himself. If using a human as a tool is a bad thing, then everyone should stop working, especially policemen, firefighters, soldiers, doctors, lawyers.
