Critical Thinking Blog Assignment #4

The human cloning story in Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Never Let Me Go” is very tragic and immoral. It is a novel about how cloned humans lived and how human beings treated them. In this imaginative plot, all cloned characters are living in a school, called Hailsham. Over there, all cloned humans are treated three meals a day, and they have to obey very strict rules, and they are not allow to be in the relationship, neither do they get out of school. It is like a school for robotics for me. As long as their missions accomplished (which is donate their four different organs), their lives are near the end. The biggest difference between robotics and human cloning besides organ donation is that their functions work almost exactly like humans except they cannot give birth. Robotics can be created that look like humans too, and they are capable of some things that human beings are not good at. However, cloned humans are made of the same genes from the person himself. Some scientists are aware of the benefits of cloning since Dolly the Sheep, such as Ray Kurzweil. He proposed in the article “The Singularity Is Near” that cloning technology can help replace one’s organ and tissues with their reproductive genes without surgery (Kurzweil 123). It is true that our problem of short of matched organ donation will be solved once the technology is perfect (Kurzweil). However, it also sounds very optimistic that the author ignored the negative impact of it. Perhaps he has thought the details that once we accept human cloning, how it affects our life. It is a sensitive ethical issue that has been remained for over 10 years. It will bring more ethical and other problems if we allow human cloning technology. “Never Let Me Go” is a great example for people who lack of consideration of human cloning to think about.