With an appeal to higher authority Dr. Wilmut, and other supporting scientists argue that society as a whole can benefit from the techniques involving animal cloning. These include improved livestock herds, opportunities for research on disease, and production of protein enriched pharmaceuticals. The most prominent collective opposition to cloning was from the religious community. Religious authorities, including Pope John Paul II have completely denounced human experiments. We are thinking .
Cloning exceeds the limits of the delegated dominions given to the human race.
By appealing to a higher authority and voicing the biblical language, the concerns of the religious community are clearly societal, and not individualistic in nature. They use paternalistic, degenerative and guilt by association arguments to condemn the possibility of human cloning. Although many religious collectives condemn human cloning, some favor it. Another interesting quotation was from Rabbi Moses Tendler, a Talmudic scholar and biologist at New York's Yeshiva University. He argued with a quotation from Genesis.