I, Clone

Monday, March 31st, 2003

In I, Clone, Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, presents his Three Laws of Cloning (in the style of Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics) and argues against cloning restrictions:

If cloning produces genetic monstrosities that render it impractical as another form of fertility enhancement, then it will not be necessary to ban it, because no one will use it. If cloning does work, however, there is no reason to forbid it, because the three common reasons given for implementing restrictions are myths. I call them the Identical Personhood Myth, the Playing God Myth, and the Human Rights and Dignity Myth.

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