The debate amongst human cloning has still to be decided. We have not even gone so far in the debate on stem cell research which would be the first step into human cloning. Personally, human cloning is on completely different tangent than stem cell research. Cloning would be a whole new extreme to encounter. Numerous piece of work flim and literature convey their point of view on the debate. Particularly in Never Let Me Go shows the emotional side that the perils of cloning would bring. It deals with "students" who are later will become donors to people in normal socities who need specific organs. Kathy H. expresses, "What we want to know now, Miss Emily, is if the rumor's true or not" (Ishiguro 257). Expressing how the clones do actually have feelings. They have feelings and desires. This is where the debate stems from on cloning, how can we expect to clone people and use them for therapeutic purposes. Especially, when they show the same attributes of being emotional and having feelings. In the story Miss Emily expresses, "---we did it to prove you have souls at all" (Ishiguro 260). The whole premise of the whole debate roots in this exact issue, which is do clones at all are real people. The importance of what we attribute to a soul, are clones capable of having one? Or are they just empy shells that are expendable sources of therapeutic purposes. Perhaps they are disposable, only further insight will tell.
Kazuo Ishiguro's,
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