If we utilize this technology and become familiar with it and set up international laws and guidelines for its utilization, however, we will be better prepared for the misuses that will eventually plague us. Cloning is a tool and, as such, is good or bad according to the use it is put to by human beings. I strongly believe we should proceed with great caution into this new frontier. Utah Very simply, cloning changes Western culture's view of what it means to be human. It brings into question the fundamental assumptions concerning personal existence and self-worth in comparison to other organisms.
Humans become less special.
I think the effects will be similar to those following Galileo Galilei's argument that the earth traveled around the sun. This removed mankind from the center of the universe. This also occurred when Darwin offered evidence of humanity's animal origins. The possibility of cloning simply moves the concept of life one step closer to a mechanistic paradigm. In the West, creationism is endemic.