Love, Money, Sex and Death in the 21st Century by Louis Shalako

Author:Louis Shalako
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: love, death, money, sex, science, essays, speculation, futurism, 21st century, louis shalako, nonticion

“The idea of cloning humans almost makes humans seem like objects. No longer are humans individual and created from love, but rather from scientists knowing exactly what they will look like and perhaps even act. The rich can get highly intelligent, model babies, pure objects of wealth.”

“Human cloning could also cause separation in families. A child he or she is not from the same genetics as its family members could cause social problems, similar to what some adopted children feel.”

“Human cloning also treads on many religious beliefs. For example, many Christians feel that scientists cloning human is a bit too much like playing God. Humans were meant to be imperfect, but could cloning bring about a perfect human?”

“Many feel animal cloning to be a violation of animal rights. Animal cloning undermines natures intent and could cause an upset in the diversity of each species. Animals will become customized tools, rather than individual, living creatures.”

Moral considerations, questions to be asked:

The Roman Catholic Church is opposed to human cloning. (Wiki.)

“The Roman Catholic Church, under the papacy of Benedict XVI, condemned the practice of human cloning, in the magisterial instruction Dignitas Personae, stating that it represents a ‘grave offense to the dignity of that person as well as to the fundamental equality of all people.’"

“Many conservative Christian groups have opposed human cloning and the cloning of human embryos.”

“They believe that life begins at the moment of conception. Other Christian denominations such as the United Church of Christ do not believe a fertilized egg constitutes a living being, but still they oppose the cloning of embryonic cells. The World Council of Churches, representing nearly 400 Christian denominations worldwide, opposed cloning of both human embryos and whole humans in February 2006. The United Methodist Church opposed research and reproductive cloning in May 2000 and again in May 2004.”

With all the recent talk about cloning, I've got to know: Would a human clone have a soul?

(As an atheist, I don’t even think I have a soul.)

“Yes, since every living thing has a soul. Plants have vegetative souls (capable of life and growth), animals have sensitive souls (capable of life, growth, and feeling), and humans have rational souls (capable of life, growth, feeling, and rational thought). Only the last kind survives death since only it is made of spirit; souls of plants and animals are made of matter and die when they die. Since a human clone would be alive, it would have a soul, and since a human clone would be rational and possess a human body, it would have the same sort of soul as every other human. The soul is created directly by God. The human soul is the substantial form and animating life principle of the human body. How you get that body, whether by natural generation, in vitro fertilization, or cloning is irrelevant. God still creates its soul.” – Catholic Answers

When people talk about the ‘right to life,’ the core belief is that life begins at conception. It is also an assumption that the state has the right to determine what a woman may do with her uterus.

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