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What I Really Would Like to See Cloned
NMB, Florida February 15, 2002 A.H. Schectman
THINKING ALLOWED
Essays on Issues, Ideas and Reflections on the Times. Published Now and
Then. Opinions Pro or Con Are Welcome.
NOW, WHAT I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO SEE CLONED
Everybody has seen the kute kitty that was kloned. Cc, for carbon copy, is
a carbon copy of her birth mother except for fur coloration. I think kittens
are cute. Carol just doesn't like cats - I think she reacts negatively to
their dander. The pitch for cloning kittens and other pets is the terrible
pain suffered by their owners when their precious pets predecease them.
Animals will do that, you know. Their lives are shorter than human lives
unless you fancy elephants and tortoises as pets.
Now, what I really would like to see cloned is something quite different.
When you think about it, cloning favorite pets would only get you another
pet and give the guys at the lab a high. Gee! Look at what we have done!
What have they done? It seems to me that they are inserting themselves into
natural selection and interrupting the natural order of things. I would only
like to get a little way into the argument against cloning at all. It is
kind of like smoking and alcohol. We all know they lead to hard drugs and
bad behavior. I think it is better to let the architect of our solar system
continue the work of perfecting the model. Can you see the lab guys as
architects of the solar system?
To get back to what I would really like to see cloned - I would like to
have the better side of the human moral system given a boost so that there
would be more of the Eagle Scout variety. I am just using the "boy" side of
scouting as model and do not intend to leave out the "other" side. I was a
Scout once and despite that organization's exclusivity they do good work.
Here is my suggestion. I am on the side of Plato and others who described
the better to best qualities of the human soul. I think we would really
come up winners if we could clone "good", "honor", "justice" and well - you
can see where I am going. I also think cloning "forgiveness" would help
just as well. Those "cloners" only want to reproduce themselves and keep on
going, and going and going.
Carol's Evaluation: 8 out of 10.
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