Preventing a Brave New World
Derek Brown
Grantham University

Abstract
This paper wills discuss Leon Kass's conclusion that reproductive and therapeutic cloning of human embryos is unethical. It will also converse the steps in Kass's argument for his conclusion and will talk about the strengths and weaknesses of this argument?

Preventing a Brave New World You ever see the mover Jurassic Park? Did you take notice the basis of the of is about cloning dinosaurs DNA; I know for one, the world is not ready for dinosaurs to walk free about the earth again. This also brings to mind a movie titled "The Boys from Brazil". This movie too depicts cloning, where the DNA of Hitler is used to clone babies with intent of one them again reigning over Germany; the world wouldn't be ready for another holocaust. To continue heading down in which cloning is the standard, then these types of cloning are a definite likelihood. Would you be ready for a "brave new world?" Or would you try to "prevent a brave new world?" You decided! Would it be so bad to have a world were all is good, no disease, famine, or illness; everyone is the epitome of their father and mother eyes and all those living in a world where cloning the norm. There are those in the here and now who see cloning, in all it facets, as a good and wonderful thing, to be done by all, if your hearts so desires. "Some among us are delighted, of course by the this state of affairs: some scientist and biotechnologist, their entrepreneurial backers, and a cheering claque of sci-fi enthusiast, futurologists, and libertarians (Winston & Edelbach, 2009)." For a number of people, the brave new world of biotechnology promises a ideal culture where one can be free from diseases because exploitation of the genetic code. Kass argues, this idea of the future entails dehumanization, because the most important beliefs of cloning and stem cell research leads to changing the human nature so considerably, mankind would no longer be human, but post human. "Now may be as good a chance as we will ever have to get our hands on the wheel of the runaway train now headed for a post-human world and to steer it toward a more dignified human future (Winston, Edelbach, 2009)." Deep-seated to human nature, Kass asserts, our human dignity, our awareness of need, limitation, and mortality to technique a way of being that has employment, strength, splendor, good worth, and significance. Modern biology, he disputes, has persuaded us that our embodiment is a fact of life to be overcome through germline handling or other biotechnological structures. "Human cloning, though partly continuous with previous reproductive technologies, is also something radically new in itself and in its easily foreseeable consequences--especially when coupled with powers for genetic "enhancement" and germline genetic modification that may soon become available, owing to the recently completed Human Genome Project (Winston, Edelbach, 2009)." Through stimulating examinations of genetic research, cloning and active euthanasia, Kass makes a case that, in spite of its many promises, biotechnology has left humanity out of the result, often demeaning human dignity rather than priding it. In the end, he dubs for a new bioethics and a new biology in order to provide a just explanation of human flourishing based on a biological relation of human life as lived, not just in the flesh, but of human mind, communally and sacredly. Although some will object to Kass's importing the spiritual into the biological, his cry will strike others as a clarion call to protect human freedom from the excesses of biotechnology. Still others will be guarded of his influence on the banning of cloning of humans. "I offer four objections to human cloning: that it constitutes unethical experimentation; that it threatens identity and individuality; that it turns procreation into manufacture (especially when understood as the harbinger of manipulations to come); and that it means despotism over children and perversion of parenthood (Winston, Edelbach, 2009)." In "Preventing a Brave New World" you have those who strongly affirm human cloning is humane and not some unnatural science experiment waiting to go wrong. It is believed it is "a means to an end", implying any action, in this case, cloning, for the sole purpose of achieving something else, a "perfect baby." "And the principle here endorsed justifies not only cloning but also all future artificial attempts to create (manufacture) "better" or "perfect" babies.
The "perfect baby," of course, is the project not of the infertility doctors, but of the eugenic scientists and their supporters, who, for the time being, are content to hide behind the skirts of the partisans of reproductive freedom and compassion for the infertile (Winston, Edelbach, 2009.)" On the flip side of the coin, there are those who strongly oppose cloning; where its seen an morally wrong and unethical, and the it takes away from the normal procreation of life,. "A society that allows cloning, whether it knows it or not, has tacitly assented to the conversion of procreation into manufacture and to the treatment of children as purely the projects of our will (Winston, Edelbach, 2009)." "Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were! (POPE JOHN PAUL II, 2003)"

References
Winston, M. E., & Edelbach, R. D. (2009). Society, ethics, and technology. (4th ed. ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub Co.
JOHN PAUL II, POPE (2003, JAN 13). Cloning quotes. Retrieved from http://www.notable- quotes.com/c/cloning_quotes.html on 31 August 2012