Ethics of cloning
Apr. 8th, 2006 04:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylThe sun is shining, the weather is beautiful, the whole world is my oyster or whatever the vegetarian equivalent is, and how do I choose to spend my day? Cramming down John Harris's fascinating On Cloning, that's how.
Thankfully, the book is good enough that I've been recompensed for my devotion with a feeling of accomplishment. It elegantly outlines the problems with many of the standard reasons given for opposing cloning, point that some of the arguments advanced lack rational support, other fly in the face of the evidence produced by identical twins, the dodgy use of Kantian autonomy, etc. All in all, a clear, lucid, interesting book for anyone with even the slightest interest in the ethical questions of cloning.
Thankfully, the book is good enough that I've been recompensed for my devotion with a feeling of accomplishment. It elegantly outlines the problems with many of the standard reasons given for opposing cloning, point that some of the arguments advanced lack rational support, other fly in the face of the evidence produced by identical twins, the dodgy use of Kantian autonomy, etc. All in all, a clear, lucid, interesting book for anyone with even the slightest interest in the ethical questions of cloning.
