A few questions to look at , Is it ethical to create and raise children to donate their organs?
Why don't the students question what's going on rather than accepting it?
In the way of ethics, well it's a difficult thing. I just finished The Island and the same question was asked. Now the people in the move are clones who are raised to have their organs harvested. They live simple lives with no knowledge of the outside world; all they want to do is work hard and escape to the island. Now what about the children in the book, they have lives sort of. They learn, have relationships, and grow old. They know they are donors.
So is this right or wrong? Is someone playing god here? Technically yes and no, I’m under the impression that lives down the road are going to be saved and no one is complaining. But in the case of myself I don’t really care. Since the children are clones, then I think it’s ethical. It’s sort of like stem cell research, the stem cells are not really living people, they aren’t full grown. If it’s going to better the world somehow, just do it. And for this discussion, I’m not involving GOD or religion because that is a one sided battle that’s just going to piss me off and make me want to drink some beer.
Why don't the students question what's going on rather than accepting it?
Well they have been created for this. This is the only place they know, the only idea they know, and they are kept in isolation. Exposure to the outside world is limited. Young kids are impressionable, so from the very beginning they are brainwashed. They don’t know anything else. I’m sure if one of them gets curios they are shipped out to a new facility or they are killed, maybe eaten.
Why is there so much emphasis on sex?
I don’t know cause the author is a pervert. Maybe sex has to do with free-will and expression. Maybe it can show everyone the clones are people.
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You say that harvesting organs from clones is permissible because if it betters the world. But does it really? Outwardly, sure, "real people" now do not have to worry about a great many crippling diseases and have a greatly improved quality of life. About the clones, though; are they really that different from their progenitors? It seems to me that they have every human characteristic except that of reproduction, which is most probably a trait purposely induced during the cloning process. I would argue the morality of this alternate world has gone to the dogs and has resulted in the world surviving on tenuous support. It probably wouldn't take much for chaos to erupt. Thus, on the whole, the world seems to be worse off with the cloning process than without.
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