This is something neither you, nor I will be able to answer with confidence. I will ask you this, would conducting research on unfertilised eggs and unfertilised sperm, separately, be unethical? Clones are produced from one of the former, combined with the DNA from another body cell, by-passing the natural mode of fertilisation through the union of the gametes. It's a tough question, because if human cloning is executed, it would pose the problem of defining what the rights of the clone would be. As a believer in the Golden Rule (do not do unto others what you do not want done unto you) as the source of all morality, I would have to empathise with the feelings of this sentient clone and grant him or her the rights I myself enjoy.
You perhaps - which is why any clone/twin created should fear atheists james.
I will ask you this, would conducting research on unfertilised eggs and unfertilised sperm, separately, be unethical?
No, because they are not a human being. Unfertilized sperm (0.o)
It's a tough question, because if human cloning is executed, it would pose the problem of defining what the rights of the clone would be. As a believer in the Golden Rule (do not do unto others what you do not want done unto you) as the source of all morality, I would have to empathise with the feelings of this sentient clone and grant him or her the rights I myself enjoy.
Why james - since rights are inferred to be God-given. And what evolution produced the 'golden rule' james? Both concepts imply the existence of God.