论克隆人的尊严问题

Ethical issues in human cloning cannot be adequately understood without taking the problem of dignity as the central concern. Kantian notion of dignity sets the starting point for our discussion of the issue, and the two versions of "Categorical Imperative" are specifically applied to the case in order to analyze how a cloned human being’s dignity must have already been violated by the clone initiator before the birth of the cloned human being. Such an issue of dignity is separated from that of happiness, and it is more fundamental than of happiness. Finally, the consideration of such an issue of dignity should take precedence over any other considerations.