Critical Thinking Assignment #3

Human Cloning--one of the most controvertial issue that a lot of scientists are debating about, especially after the success of Dolly the Sheep.
From different points of view, the benefits and drawbacks are so distinct.
One of scientists who supports human cloning which I know is from course back of Eng101 class-- Ray Kurzweil. He points out that cloning is a very important and significant technology for human life (Kurzweil 121). For instance, cloning can help improve breeding by offering genetic traits from the same animal (Kurzweil 122). Moreover, it can apply to therapeutic cloning, which is one of the most valuable application (Kurzweil 122). For me, it is great idea that we don't need to worry that we are shorts of organs to donate because of human cloning. Notwithstanding, the movie "The Island" which shows how a human clone helps to give birth a child for the original mother, it is sad when the clone's mission accomplished, the doctor murdered her. If we humans have rights to decide our lives, why cloned humans don't have any? They become useless once they accomplish the task, just like robots. That's not what we call "benefit" from the cloned-human's point of view.
On the other hand, another play which is called  "A Number" represents some other problems of human cloning as well. It is a tragedy story of a father who used to abuse his son accidently cloned 20 copys of his son to make up his mistake and then his orginal son found out his father had other cloned sons, he was upset and killed his cloned brother whom his father loved the most, and committed suicide after that (Churchill 146-200). From this fiction play, we find out that human cloning is very complicated. Although we humans deserve second chance when we make mistakes, we can't pretend nothing happened to make another clone to redo things. Moreover, The father in this play also states that human cloning destroys humans' uniqueness and damage their identities (Churchill 151). It is true that if we lose our uniqueness and everyone is replaceable in the world, there is no value and meaning for us in the world.
All in all, human cloning may not be acceptable today, but many consider that it may happen in near future which is not what I really want to see. I can't imagine there is a cloned me exists in the world. I might feel I'm not a complete person any more.