Should human cloning be banned?

Human cloning will lead to a new form of racism

Question: Should human cloning be banned?
Position1 of 2›: Yes, human cloning should be banned
Argument1 of 2›: Human cloning will lead to a new form of racism

While it may seem like a step towards advancing medicine, science, and technology, it will only breed racism and confusion. It’s a difficult concept that will open a new door for racism in a world that already suffers from it.

The argument

Social order is defined as the way the various components of society work together to maintain the status quo. Human cloning will upset the social order of fertility and human reproduction, resulting in fear and developing a new form of racism. In a world where racial discrimination is already prevalent, it would cause social chaos for those born from asexual reproduction. Calls for a ban on cloning amount to discrimination against people based on another genetic trait (the fact that somebody already has an identical DNA sequence). The most extreme form of discrimination is genocide (seeking to eliminate that which is different). In this case, it’s the idea that clones are dangerous to society (in terms of social order), so we must eliminate their existence, even before their creation.

Premises

[P1]Proponents argue human cloning would upset the established social order of reproduction, breeding fear and a new form of discrimination against those born by asexual reproduction in a world where racial prejudice is already prevalent. [P2] Treating clones as inherently dangerous to the social order risks the most extreme discrimination—eliminating what is different—amounting to a genocidal impulse against people defined by a genetic trait. [C] Because cloning would spawn a new and dangerous form of racism, human cloning should be banned.

Counter-arguments

It will challenge human knowledge of medicine and science. If anything, it will help further the advancements in both fields.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P1] This is based on speculation, as a human clone has not been successful yet. The expectation and projection of racism on the cloned individual is only inferred in this situation.