I Want a Girl (Boy) Just Like the Girl (Boy) that Married Dear Old Dad (Mom): Cloning Lives
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I WANT A GIRL (BOY) JUST LIKE THE
GIRL (BOY) THAT MARRIED DEAR OLD
DAD (MOM): CLONING LIVES
MICHAEL H. SHAPIRO
TABLE OF CONTENTS'
INTRODU CTION .......................................................................................................................... 5
A. LIFE IS HELL, ESPECIALLY FOR HUMAN CLONES, BECAUSE THEY ARE TAINTED BY
THEIR ODIOUS ORIGINS ...................................................................................................... 5
B. THE PLANNED COMMENTARY ............................................................................................. 8
C. IF CLONING Is PROCREATION, WHO Is DOING THE PROCREATING? ................................ 18
D. A NOTE ON DISCLOSURE OF CLONEHOOD ...................................................................... 18
IL COMMON ATTACKS ON CLONING; REMARKS ON JUNK COMMENTARY,
ASEXUALITY, DUPLICATION, AND THE ARTIFICIAL. ............................................... 19
A. PROLOGUE: SOME ANTI-CLONING THEMES ................................................................... 19
B . REPLICATION ........................................................................................................................ 21
I. Cloning Is Replication, Not Reproduction, and Represents a Difference in Kind,
Not in Degree in the Way Humans Continue the Species . .......................... 21
2. Cloning-whether It Is Reproduction or Not-Represents a Difference in Kind
Concerning the Way in Which We Continue the Species ......................................... 27
C. GENETIC DETERMINISM: A CLONE Is SADDLED WITH A GENOTYPE THAT HAS
ALREADY LIVED. ................................................................................................................ 29
D. INHERENT EVIL: CLONING OF HUMANS [Is] INHERENTLY EVIL, A MORALLY
UNJUSTIFIABLE INTRUSION INTO HUMAN LIFE. .............................................................. 30
E. IF INDEED HUMAN CLONING IS INTRINSICALLY EVIL, How SHOULD WE MORALLY
CHARACTERIZE THE OFFSPRING? DOES THE EVIL OF THE PERSON-CREATING
PROCESS LIVE ON IN HER? ............................................................................................... 32
F. RIGHTS NOT TO BE BORN WITH A DUPLICATE GENETIC IDENTITY: IMPLICIT IN THE
PROHIBITION OF CLONAL HUMANS Is THE RATIONALE THAT CERTAIN TYPES OF
HUMANS OUGHT NOT TO EXIST, EITHER BECAUSE THEY HAVE INALIENABLE
RIGHTS TO NONEXISTENCE OR BECAUSE THEIR PRESENCE WOULD ERODE
IMPORTANT SOCIAL VALUES ........................................................................................... 33
G. MORE ON PERSONHOOD AND HUMANITY-OF PRODUCTS AND PROCESSES: THE
CLAIM THAT CLONES AREN'T FULLY HUMAN .............................................................. 36
H. CLONING AS ILLEGITIMATE IMMORTALITY ........................................................................... 40
I. ARMIES OF JORDANS, HITLERS AND MozARTs: THE DEBASEMENT OF MERIT AND
INDIVIDUALITY ..................................................................................................................... 41
J. THE PROPORTIONATE PUNISHMENT OF CLONERS SHOULD MATCH THAT
FOR RAPE, CHILD ABUSE AND MURDER. ...................................................................... 42
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