• Question: why is it illegal to clone people?

    Asked by Black_star to Jackie, Michele, Oliver, Vicky, Yelong on 9 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Vicky Bayliss

      Vicky Bayliss answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      I’m not actually sure what the official argument is, but I’m not sure I would like it if there was another one of me walking around.
      What if alternative me committed a crime – how would I prove I was innocent?

    • Photo: Oliver Brown

      Oliver Brown answered on 9 Mar 2015:

      Probably partly just because we haven’t had chance to think through all the possible consequences yet. With anything as world-changing as human cloning might be it’s a good idea to know exactly what you’re letting yourself in for well before it becomes an actual issue!

    • Photo: Michele Faucci Giannelli

      Michele Faucci Giannelli answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      I think mainly because the main goal would be to harvest organs to replace failing ones in the original body. You can easily imagine that creating a new life to kill it and use for spare parts will raise more than a eyebrows.

    • Photo: Jaclyn Bell

      Jaclyn Bell answered on 20 Mar 2015:

      What Michele said reminds me of the film The Island – you should watch it if you haven’t seen it… maybe then you will agree that cloning people is ethically wrong.

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