Clonación humana: las preguntas «por qué no» y «por qué sí»

Abstract

Why not cloning us is a relevant question for contemporary ethics. The question why not, when it refers to a technology (or to some of its applications), is the question for its moral limits. In other words, it is the question for the universal dangers that a technology entails or could entail in some of its applications. The sphere of the moral evaluation of a technology has to do with the public elimination of the possible harms that are inherent or supervenient to its utilisation. If we focus on the relevant normative questions of the justice sphere, it couldn´t be relevant to answer the question why, that is, why a person or a group of them would wish the technology was applied The question why is related to vital options and ways of create ourselves that needn´t be binding on someone nor are characteristic of the moral point of view. However, the suspicion of this article is the following: the specific character of contemporary technological innovation (of which cloning is a paradigmatic case) stimulates and makes relevant the debate about the good (given the collective or global implications of the answers).