Human cloning is one of the most exciting and contradictory concepts of recent times. It raises a vast amount of ethical, scientific, and existential questions for humanity. Among these are the meaning, complexities, and attitudes toward future clones. However, despite all the details of the research, this technology has the potential to affect humanity’s development in a positive way. The main ethical issue is the potential violation of human rights in any cloning attempt and in understanding its consequences’ meaning and significance. Thus, some argue that a cloned human being without an officially confirmed registered parent has no right to be called human. This claim, in turn, violates the rights of the already cloned and is easily refuted by a large number of orphans among human beings. The multitude of the biologically born have no way of knowing their fathers and mothers and have all the rights in human society, and no one can even afford to think about violating them.
Moreover, many people already consume foods from genetically modified varieties and species, or even cloned sources, and do not think twice about it. There is confirmation in the laws of modern countries that clones of edible animals are no different from the original and cannot be distinguished from them even by scientists. Accordingly, many opponents of cloning, not only humans but also of the process in principle, have had cloned foods in their diet for a long time now without being harmed by them and without even thinking about it.
The second possible issue deals with the problem of overpopulation on our planet and emphasizes the overconsumption of natural resources. However, science has not yet come to the actual cloning of human beings, limited by the norms of morality and the rules of states. So it is not worth thinking about such an issue now, or at least it is not a priority. In addition, no one has any right to regulate the amount of people on the planet and to determine who is more worthy of living than others. A third point can be determined by the already sufficient advancement of biology and genetics in the cloning process. Small animals and even a few large ones have been successfully cloned. The point is basically to create an optimal environment for the fetus to grow under artificial conditions, which has already been realized for some animal species. Accordingly, concerns about the safety of the process have little reason to grow.
Based on all of the above, it is possible to identify the main reasons for opposition to the cloning process. These include, in the first place, the violation of human rights without specifying them, as is often done by scandalous social organizations. Then comes the claim that the human personality would be incompletely formed under such conditions, and worries about overpopulation. Virtually all of the proponents’ reasons are poorly reasoned and count only on interaction with poorly educated activists among the masses.
Accordingly, most of the counterarguments in the discussion of the possibility of human cloning have no practical sense or coherence. Apart from the legal restrictions that have been able to limit human cloning to safety concerns and prohibitions on human experimentation, there are no objective contradictions. In the future, humanity will surely overcome stereotypes and take up the issues of cloning research, advancing scientific progress.