Why is cloning humans considered so immoral? Can someone please explain?
My reasons for considering it immoral are that it concentrates too much power over the circumstances of the beginning of a person's life in the hands of other people, and that it's a means of assembling a person like a product rather than allowing a person to eventuate out of some sort of preexisting human relationship. I'm aware that these are unfashionable concerns to have. I don't consider it notably more immoral than other forms of gestational surrogacy. TNF would probably count this as hokey religious garbage and I won't deny that my religious convictions influence my viewpoint but I hope it escapes being considered anti-science or (inherently) right-wing.
This is probably correct considering the last person I spoke to who opposed it literally said that clones wouldn't have souls.
You talk to
Orphan Black villains?
ETA: Of course, while we're on the subject of gestational surrogacy, there's an additional, entirely separate set of reasons why
that as currently practiced is immoral, reasons which have a lot less to do with convictions about the stochastic and relational nature of human reproduction or whatever and a lot more to do with economic exploitation and coercion.
