In Caryl Churchill's ,"A Number" this play shows the unethical consequences that can come from human cloning. In the play one of the main character's named Salter clones his son who he ironically can't stand, to make up for all the bad he had done to his son. But his cloned son who is named Bernard 2 find out and is very upset with his father. Then, Bernard 1 confront his father, and tells his about his horrible life he had suffered dealing with his drug addiction. The author states "and they take this painless scrape this specky little cells of me and kept that and you threw the rest of me away"(Churchill 162). This quote shows how easy it is to clone a human in the future all you need is a small sample of a cell. I had two questions through out this hole story and it was, is cloning ethical? From this story I do not believe that cloning is ethical. I do believe that it can harm families because of scientist selfish views. The other question I had is if you clone children how would scientist know if that's what they wanted?. From that question I can see that children will never have an opinion or a choice. I believe that is sad and should be banned to clone children. Also killing clones or abandoning them wont help all the problems this world already has. I believe if scientist really read certain texts that they will see both sides. They don't have to go against what they believe but they will at least think twice about certain choices.
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