How did the first contemporary issue effect your principles? Did it challenge them? Were your principles helpful in working out your response to the issue? Which philosopher's position was most consistent with your own principles and why?
After reading the articles on human cloning I obviously had conflicting views on the issue in comparison to my personal principles. At first the idea of human cloning sounded completely wrong to me because I am a firm believer in fate and what's meant to be will happen. Human cloning disproves that and basically says if your child was killed at a young age, it's okay we could just clone them which didn't sit well with me. I guess I could also be a result of my Catholic upbringing where I believe God has a plan for everyone.
However, one of my other main principles is do unto others what you would want to have done to you which made me take a second look at the issue. This is where I found I agreed mostly with Michael Tooley's arguement. Two of the things he talked about that made me change my views were the topics of cloning to better the society and to save lives. Tooley talked specifically about Einstein and explained that if we would have been able to clone Einstein the possiblities and opportunities he would have proved us with for scientific improvements would be limitless. However, the only thing I was still stuck on was the fact that who decides which people should be cloned and who shouldn't be. For example someone could pay to clone great people such as Einstein but they could also clone awful people like Hitler. Also, when they talked about how cloning blood marrow would be able to save a teenagers life from leukemia this hit home with me and was the real selling point. A number of important people to my life have died from things such as cancer and I know that personally if there was any way I could bring them back I would, and cloning provides people with this opportunity. Even though I'm completely for letting things happen as they are meant to be, when you put yourself in such a situation your views change. I'm glad we read these two articles because they did in fact broaden my horizons and challenge my views. It makes you see both sides to the arguement.
I commented on Luke's blog.
http://lukedemuro.blogspot.com/
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