Do you love your pet? If you do, would you be willing to spend $150,000 dollars to have your beloved pet clone?
For many people, a pet is a family member, and a few even prefer to have a pet over having a child. A pet gives you unconditional love. A pet is always there to greet you when you come home. A pet does not "bark" back at you if you scold it for a bad behavior. It is pretty close to a perfect relationship. How far do you want to go to preserve your pet?
Surely, we love our pets, but how many of us are willing to send away $150,000 dollars to have him/her clone after he/she has departed?
According AFP news released on Thursday, February 14th, 2008 a South Korean firm received its first order to re-create a pit-bull terrier for a US woman. This is the world's first commercial cloning. The California woman had saved her beloved pet's ear tissue for this purpose.
The actual cloning will be carried out by Seoul National University, and its CEO predicts at least another 500 orders from rich pet owners in the Western countries in a few years.
Questions to Ask Yourself
- Is this ethical to go against nature?
- Is this right to re-produce a life?
- Is this acceptable?
- If we keep cloning the pet we lost, how is that affecting our feelings since we do not have to mourn for our pet anymore?
- If we can clone a pet, why can't we clone our dead relatives?
- Where do we draw the line? At what point can we stop?
- If we can clone a "good" pet, we can also clone a "bad" pet, so how do we decide? Who will decide which is good and which is bad? Or who is good and who is bad?
- Is too much of good things, bad?
- What will happen in the long run?
- Using the same DNA over and over again, is that in our future?
If our world is going into this direction, where if we have money, we can pay to get our beloved pet, child, parents or lover cloned for one reason or another; then it is so wrong!
The universe was created with the cycle of life and death. Can we just respect the law of nature, and allow ourselves to live in harmony with it? Can we stop improving where improvement is not needed? Cry for your pet, mourn for your pet, but then let him/her go.
