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NEVER LET ME GO CONTEXT - Coggle Diagram
NEVER LET ME GO CONTEXT
ETHICS
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'personhood'
in never let me go, the clones art can be used to prove their personhood, yet deferrals are still not possible?
human beings are considered distinct from non human species on account of their personhood. Conditions for personhood include: agency, autonomy, self awareness, rationality, sociability and language (which would make the clones definable as people)
NATURAL LAW THEORY
as a value based theory of ethics, natural law theory aims to measure actions by their inherent 'value'- four items determine if something is 'valuable': human life, human procreation, human knowledge, and human sociability.
IF THE CLONES ARE NOT CONSIDERED HUMAN, NATURAL LAW THEORY WOULD NOT OBJECT TO THE USE OF THEIR ORGANS.
To deny the clones the possibility of procreation would be enough in itself to condemn the donation programme as morally impermissible
KANTIAN MORAL THEORY
the imperative is based off of Kant's 'humanity formulation', which states 'an action is only right if the action treats persons as ends in themselves and not merely means. to treat a person as mere means is to regard them as solely an instrument'
miss Lucy very clearly clarifies to the students that they will be used as mere means to other peoples ends, and that Is the purpose of their existence, meaning if they are 'human' the cloning programme is morally impermissible.
if the clones did not possess personhood, the system would be morally permissible under Kantian moral theory.
GENRE
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elements of science fiction are juxtaposed with the ordinary, everyday language of prose as to normalise violent, extraordinary actions.
SCIENTIFIC ADVANCMENT
DOLLY THE SHEEP
the tem of scientist who created dolly believed that their achievemt would help 'transform the fight against disease'- a similar atttitude to the cloning programme
dolly the sheep was the first mammal cloned from an adult cell, and lots of people weren't happy about it as they feared humans would be next- this public reaction and fear of human coning makes the societal outcasting of the clones even more realistic
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