Blog 18

Human cloning, aside from unregulated clinical trials, is probably the most controversial and ethically questionable scientific study today.  Ethics and morality are a driving force in regulating scientific advancement.  Without these very important qualities, the research and experiments done would spin out of control.  Unquestioned and unregulated testing could progress into complete disasters.  The consequences of testing done by research done disregarding completely the ethics involved are hard to even imagine.  We have reached a point in time where are technology and scientific understanding poses a real threat to the future of humanity if we do not approach all progress with extreme caution.  The entertainment industry imagines the extremes of the consequences our own progress could bring in movies and shows.  But these exaggerated situations, could be more real than we think.  Following the trend of human scientific progression, there really is no limit to what we can eventually accomplish.  Our own curiosity or arrogance could become a truly dangerous thing; especially we fail to regulate ourselves on the basis of an ethical code. “If human cloning happens, it will occur in a less restrictive area of the world--probably by some wealthy eccentric individual,"(Choi 158).  This is the biggest problem we face in regulation of unethical or dangerous scientific discovery.  That quote describes how easily something like human cloning could “blow-up” if in the technology falls into the wrong hands.  There isn’t much we can do except hope that all scientists keep a strong sense of morality and protect the ethical code when doing new scientific research.  Otherwise, we might all suffer the consequences.