This presentation about Human Cloning was created by Karim Frenn, Rana Akel, Elie Antoun, Jad Eid and Marwan Matar for an Ethics course.

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3. Human
Cloning
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5. Report
http://bit.ly/humancloningreport
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6. Report
http://bit.ly/humancloningreport
Presentation
http://bit.ly/humancloningpresentation
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7. How is Cloning Done?
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8. How is Cloning Done?
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9. How is Cloning Done?
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10. How is Cloning Done?
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18. History of Cloning
1962
A Professor at Oxford University claimed
to have cloned frogs from differentiated
adult intestinal cells
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19. History of Cloning
1962
A Professor at Oxford University claimed
to have cloned frogs from differentiated
adult intestinal cells
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20. History of Cloning
1964
A carrot plant was cloned from a fully
differentiated carrot root cell
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21. History of Cloning
1965-1995
Cows, Frogs, Mice and Sheep
were cloned
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22. History of Cloning
July 5, 1996
Dolly
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24. Do clones have the same Will the countries with the best
rights as “natural” humans?
scientists have the best armies?
What about religious issues ? What are its advantages
and disadvantages?
Should we allow human cloning?
Wouldn’t be much easier if we had
Will the clone have the human clones to work for others?
same soul as the original ? Can we reach a decisive
Won’t human cloning lead to conclusion about this issue?
more wars in this case?
What legal and political issues arise
Aren’t clones like identical twins? with the prospect of human cloning?
Is Human Cloning Ethical?
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25. Human Cloning and ...
Divine Command Theory
Naturalism
Religion
Kantianism
Utilitarianism
Cultural Relativism
Rachels
Egoism
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26. The Divine Command Theory
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27. Anything commanded by God is
considered to be moral
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28. God created man as his image
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29. The ultimate goal of the human kind is to
achieve unity with God
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30. “Human cloning helps achieve our ultimate goal
of unity with God, thus cloning is moral”
Cloning Advocate
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32. Human cloning will give us the ability to create humans
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33. Human cloning will give us the ability to create humans
Creating humans is the ability of God
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34. Human cloning will give us the ability to create humans
Creating humans is the ability of God
Human cloning gives us God like abilities
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35. Human cloning will give us the ability to create humans
Creating humans is the ability of God
Human cloning gives us God like abilities
But if all of us have God-like abilities, then what is the purpose of
having a God?
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36. Human cloning will give us the ability to create humans
Creating humans is the ability of God
Human cloning gives us God like abilities
But if all of us have God-like abilities, then what is the purpose of
having a God?
Human cloning is immoral in the opinion of the
Direct Command Theory because it removes the
necessity of having God
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37. Naturalism
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38. Natural is Moral
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39. Human Nose
Moral
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40. Human Nose
Immoral
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41. Human Nose
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42. Natural Human Fertilization
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43. Religion
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44. Almost all opponents to cloning techniques
tend to refer to
Religion
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45. Christianity
Cloning is playing the role of god and defying the
course of nature from taking place.
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46. Islam
God created man of an extraction of clay and
that God is the only creator.
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47. Judaism
Liberal*Jews*look*
Conserva)ve*Jews*have* forward*to*the*use*of*
never*encouraged* poten)al*medical*
cloning* advancement*of*
cloning*
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48. Hinduism
Man is God and God is Man
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49. Buddhism
No absolute opinion on ethical rightness of Cloning
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50. Kantianism
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51. A person should treat other people as
having intrinsic value, and not merely as a
means to achieve one’s end
2nd formula of Categorical Imperative
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52. Cloning is used for
Bringing back historical figures
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53. Cloning is used for
Medical Research
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54. Cloning is used for
Army Bases
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55. Violation of Human Dignity
Organ Transplant
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56. Violation of Human Dignity
Organ Transplant
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57. Violation of Human Dignity
Commercial Purpose
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58. Immoral Act
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59. Cultural Relativism
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60. Different cultures have different moral codes
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61. What is considered right in a
certain society can be
considered wrong in another
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62. The rightness of an act
depends on one’s society
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63. Utilitarianism
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64. The rightness of an act depends on its
consequences
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65. Human cloning can promote
happiness
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66. Human cloning can promote
unhappiness
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67. Consequences are not always
what we expect them to be
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68. The view of
Utilitarianism on
cloning is not
absolute
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69. Rachels
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70. Infertility
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71. Genetic diseases
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72. Tissue or organ transplant
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73. Fear
Uniqueness
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74. Fear
As mean to an end
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75. Ethical Egoism
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76. Normative Ethical Theory
A person ought to do what is in his or her own
self-interest
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77. Human Cloning can be both beneficial and
detrimental according to Ethical Egoists
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78. Human Cloning can be both beneficial and
detrimental according to Ethical Egoists
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79. Better Lifestyle & Healthier Life
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80. Overpopulation
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81. That’s all for today!
Divine Command Theory
Religion
Naturalism
Kantianism
Utilitarianism
Cultural Relativism
Rachels
Egoism
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82. That’s all for today!
Divine Command Theory Against
Religion
Naturalism
Kantianism
Utilitarianism
Cultural Relativism
Rachels
Egoism
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83. That’s all for today!
Divine Command Theory Against
Religion Depends
Naturalism
Kantianism
Utilitarianism
Cultural Relativism
Rachels
Egoism
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84. That’s all for today!
Divine Command Theory Against
Religion Depends
Naturalism Against
Kantianism
Utilitarianism
Cultural Relativism
Rachels
Egoism
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85. That’s all for today!
Divine Command Theory Against
Religion Depends
Naturalism Against
Kantianism Against
Utilitarianism
Cultural Relativism
Rachels
Egoism
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86. That’s all for today!
Divine Command Theory Against
Religion Depends
Naturalism Against
Kantianism Against
Utilitarianism Debatable
Cultural Relativism
Rachels
Egoism
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87. That’s all for today!
Divine Command Theory Against
Religion Depends
Naturalism Against
Kantianism Against
Utilitarianism Debatable
Cultural Relativism Debatable
Rachels
Egoism
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88. That’s all for today!
Divine Command Theory Against
Religion Depends
Naturalism Against
Kantianism Against
Utilitarianism Debatable
Cultural Relativism Debatable
Rachels For
Egoism
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89. That’s all for today!
Divine Command Theory Against
Religion Depends
Naturalism Against
Kantianism Against
Utilitarianism Debatable
Cultural Relativism Debatable
Rachels For
Egoism Debatable
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90. Thank You!
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