Critical Thinking Blog Assignment #4

Imaginative text usually portrays a issue. Imaginative texts like Churchill's story called "The Number" is about a play showing how natural human desire by Salter to make up for his past wrongs by cloning his songs. Things do not go as planned and there is a tragic ending. The play presents a issue about either nature or nurture. Churchill did a great job in describing as to what would happen if you clone your own son and the personal problems that would arise. The ending is very tragic. He writes " Salter- I miss him so much, Michael- there's 19 of us more. Salter- That's not the same" (Churchill 199). This quote talks about how Salter lost B1 and B2 due to his bad decisions and mistakes and how he regrets dearly for what he has done. The play shows " is it okay to have human cloning?" From my personal opinion and as a humanist, I believe it is unethical because just looking at the Churchill's story it's very possible to have 20 sons by mistake and only love one of them and not even the original. Salter ruined his life for what he did. He says " I didn't feel l'd lost him when l sent him away because l had the second chance. And when the second one my son the second son was murdered it wasn't so bad as you'd think because it seemed fair. I was back with the first one(Churchill 198). In this quote, Churchill is talking about how Salter he doesn't feel as bad when he lost the other son but it was very tragic for him. This quote in my opinion is an example of the possibilities of unethical human cloning because, how would you feel if you were to not care if 6 of your own sons were murdered and you still continue to love  the other clones as if you don't care? So I do think imaginative text does raise questions if it's ethical or human or not, and if it's alright to clone humans. Churchill leaves it up to the reader to decide whether it's human or not to human clone which I said earlier, that I do believe it's inhuman to do so.