Cloning

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g ninety-six human beings grow where only one grew before. Can you imagine that many people walking around that look exactly like you? It is true that people today have lost some sense of individuality because of peoples desires to achieve societies ideal image, but cloning would further discourage individualism. Both our biological and social structures could be in jeopardy if we allow cloning to get out of control.
On the other hand, cloning can be beneficial without having to intervene in the natural reproduction of humans. The possible benefits of cloning include improving livestock for consumption by humans, curing diseases, and producing cells and organs that are compatible with a transplant patient. Cloning could drastically improve the agricultural industry. Genetic information of livestock has already been altered so the livestock produce biological proteins that help people with diseases like diabetes and Parkinsons. Also, it would be wonderful to cure common diseases, but do we understand the impact of curing diseases. Our population would skyrocket and new diseases would probably develop from mutations. Although, I know if I had cancer or Alzheimers disease I would want there to be a procedure to eliminate

these diseases from my genes. Theoretically, using c...