Cloning seems like it has the potential to cure disabilities and diseases, and also make farming easier. With so many potential uses why is it that nothing major has happened since Dolly the sheep?
In: 1789
As others mentioned, cloning happens all the time in farming with plants. With animals, for most people, it’s the threat of the “slippery slope”. Cloning animals normalizes cloning living things, which can lead to experiments on cloning people, which leads to…whatever ethical questions that have been beaten to death in movies.
A lot of science would benefit from experiments and investment in areas with questionable ethics and controls…but it becomes the argument about the ends justifying the means.
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