Word: cloning
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Rifkin, however, was the exception. Few people seemed to be thinking of the Brave New World visions in which a totalitarian government creates whole subclasses of clones designed expressly for particular tasks. As Annas pointed out, there are better ways to create a crack Navy SEAL team or an astronaut corps than to clone the appropriate mix of sperm and egg and wait 20 years. "Maybe if this were Nazi Germany, we would worry more about the government," said Annas. "But we're in America, where we have the private market. We don't need government to make the nightmare...
Most people seemed to respond to the idea of human cloning at a more fundamental level. In the TIME/CNN poll, 58% said they thought cloning was morally wrong, while 63% said they believed it was against God's will. "It's not that anyone thinks there is a commandment 'Thou shalt not clone,' " said Margaret O'Brien Steinfels of Commonweal magazine. "But there are limits to what humans ought to be thinking about doing." For many, the basic sanctity of human life seemed to be under attack, and it made them angry. "The people doing this ought to contemplate splitting...
Would you like to have been a clone...
...shows, beginning with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, published 61 years ago, and continuing through the summer's box-office behemoth, Jurassic Park. There are mysteries, thrillers, love stories -- even a sci-fi parody of an old pop song ("Weird Al" Yankovic's I Think I'm a Clone Now, sung to the tune of Tommy James and the Shondells' I Think We're Alone Now). Cloning, in fact, has been a fertile enough subject to earn its own lengthy entry in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction...
...different vision of cloning, involving not just the splitting of embryos but the generation of an entire human from a bit of tissue, leads down another fanciful path: re-creating a specific person. In Ben Bova's novel Multiple Man ; (1976), several exact copies of the U.S. President are found dead and no one is certain whether a clone or the real McCoy sits in the Oval Office. In Nancy Freedman's 1973 book Joshua, Son of None, the clone is a real President, John F. Kennedy. And, Ira Levin's 1976 novel (later a movie), The Boys from Brazil...