Showing posts with label cloning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cloning. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Oversimplify relationship Through Cloning between parent and child is lost...

Montague is right when he suggests that parents have obligations with respect to their children. They have the obligation to raise and nurture their children in such a way that they are able to enjoy meaningful lives both currently and as they mature towards their own adulthood. To say however, that these obligations are all that exists seems to oversimplify the relationship between parent and child. Intuitively at least we think that a child has done something wrong, or is at least ungrateful, when without justification, it strikes out against the well intention, good parent. We think there is something wrong when young teens are allowed to, by social systems, to leave homes were there is no abuse and where they have been cared and nurtured for over a decade by loving parents, and the parents are not allowed to even know where the child is. It is this intuition at the very least that leads me to think that Montague’s account is wrong. Surely Montague is not saying that he thinks it is appropriate for a ten year old child to decide that, despite the fact there home life has been better than average, they want to leave home and that we should accept and acknowledge this decision and commit resources to allowing it. Alternatively, perhaps under his conception of parental obligations, the parents would be forced, by the state, to continue to financially support their child even though the child had declined this support from within the home.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Gene therapy and cloning is same in genetic engineering.....


Gene therapy must not be confused with cloning that has been in the news very much in the previous years. Cloning is generating a different human being with in essence the identical genetic structure is especially dissimilar from gene therapy.
Scientific barriers in gene therapy highlight the conception of vehicles called vectors or gene carriers to bring therapeutic genes to the cells of patients. One time the gene is in the cell its requirement to function properly. Patient’s bodies may refuse treatments and lastly there is the call for to standardize gene expression.
Viruses have developed a method of summarizing and delivering their genes to human cells in a pathogenic approach. Scientists have attempted to obtain benefit of the virus's biology and control its genome to eliminate the disease-causing genes and introduce therapeutic genes. These gene-delivery gene carriers will build this field of realism.

Genetic Essentialisim and Embroy Identitiy.

This is a difficult position to defend, even from a standpoint to embryonic identity. However this situation only worsens when we begin to c...