cloning ¿good or bad? To begin with, I strongly oppose to the idea of cloning living animals or people. It is true that it could be a great asset and an advantage for further scientific investigation. Cloning animals would be an amazing help in the genetic field. Scientists might be finally able to recreate the image of the great ancient animal species. Parents would be able to replace their deceased children with genetical modified 'biological' robots provided with interconstructed memories and thoughts, and gifted with artificial intelligence. Also, cloning human organs would diminish the waiting lists for organ transplants and other surgical interventions. Therefore, doctors would be able to cure more people at a faster rate. However, when I read about the true scope of this practice, it reminded me of the intellectual and philososphical movement named transhumanism, wich defends the idea that we, people, should use the advanced technology within our reach with the aim of improing ourselves and both our mental and phisical capacities. In my view, Transhumanism and cloning have more similar goals than one might think. In the first place, along with all the positive contributions, cloning would look forward not only to create a good and fucntional specimen, but a perfect one. However, the more they try to make something flawless, the less natural it becomes. As a consequence, our dreams are not limited to create a good matter, but to make feasible the idea of superpowers and other sci-fi things that shall make us, humans, a more superior race. I see it as something unfair nonetheless, as only the people of high prestige of our society will get the chance to have implanted in them and in their children the desired traits (intelligence, strength, atractiveness), but the lower social classes will not have the same opportunity. This will create a large social gap in our society that had been erased many decades ago, since the UDHR in 1948. To be clear, I am not against saving people and animal species, but I do object the idea of the wrong person getting their hands on this well-aimed project, and ending up turnig it into something unpleasent. Thank you very much for correnting this text and I hope you've enjoyed your reading! You'refree to leave a comment. I'd like to know other people's opinion about this topic.