The novel Brave New World presents us with a vision of a future in which humans are no longer born "naturally" but rather are manufactured in identical batches according to certain specifications. Where concepts like “mother” and “father” are scatological and children are taught only to maintain order and complete predetermined tasks. At the end of the novel Mr. Huxley makes us grateful that such a world is beyond our reach. However, with the successful cloning of a Scottish sheep named Dolly, images of a new world have become much closer to reality. Even just the word clone can conjure up dark images of rows of identical individuals with barcodes tattooed on their necks walking in lockstep and it is due largely to the creative minds behind works of science fiction that cloning is imagined as a harbinger of a copacetic and insensitive society in which people are manufactured and common morality has been replaced with laws interpreted by machines. It is therefore not surprising that cloning, having been carried out in the present, has been met with fear, discrimination and revulsion. Leon Kass argues that our initial revulsion towards cloning is due to an intrinsic desire to preserve natural law. Kass explains that revulsion and fear are natural reactions to transgression of the natural order and contain wisdom that is beyond our immediate understanding. Kass even goes so far as to conclude that only children born from sex could be considered fully human since any other genesis of a human being is completely unnatural and wrong. According to Kass, all children are born to a loving couple who have no other motivation in having a child other than the joy of children, but simply the fact that the children were born from rape or because... middle of paper.. ...cloning issue and therefore it is a pre-programmed prejudice that highlights the real problem of cloning, society. Cloning offers not only the possibility of abuse but also of great progress. Even just the knowledge gained through cloning advances our understanding of genetic information so much that in the future diseases like Alzheimer's could become what polio is today. Many of the scientific advances that have seen their abuses have also had their glorious triumphs; where IVF can be abused, it has also allowed couples to have children when they could not do so in the usual way. In conclusion, I believe that cloning, once matured, will have the potential to allow people who otherwise could not reproduce, as well as many other applications yet to be seen, as long as we as a society can come to terms with our prejudices and learn to accept that genetics does not entirely determine our future.