Critical Thinking blog #3

     
                A Number is deeply captivating, and intriguing play because the situation the main character ‘Salter’ dignifies as moral behavior. Years before the play takes place, Salter paid a scientist to clone his son. He didn't realize the scientist made twenty clones instead of one, and so Salter is faced with having to tell one of his sons that he is not the original, and then gets to meet some of the others, each of whom responds quite differently to the news of being cloned. Why Salter had one of his sons cloned is explained with a couple of different, contradictory reasons, and Salter may be lying. In order for the author to show such a contradictory line he mentioned: (b1) ‘the son’ – he says, “You should have killed me it’s my fault” (Churchill 188). - decided to clone, and there would not be dead. In fact,  he’s saying this because from his general viewpoint, Just because they were ‘Clone’s’ doesn’t mean they weren’t humans. Example, the father ‘Salter’ did a big mistake, and of course that was to capture the new technical advances make new humans instead by its natural way. Also, just because the original son of Salter had misunderstanding attitudes of this unmorality behavior he says, that it should not  be admired, rewarded and emulated, while the ‘Salter’ represents the attitudes which should be abhorred, punished and discouraged.


We should appreciate the new technological advances, but not let it get too far! Perhaps our 'Unique' humans won't be the same after we create the medical advances such as, Cloning.