The Island

At the advice of a friend, I watched the movie the Island.  Basically a program created by partial govenment research dollars and supported through rich and famous customers, create clones of their clients in order to cheat death.  These clones have no idea they are clones and are capped intellectualy at about age 16.  The clones think they were saved from a bioterror apocolyps and are now being cared for.  The hopes and dreams of going to "The Island" where they can life the rest of their lives in the last germ free place in the world.  Of course everyone selected to go to the island is really on a first class, expense paid trip to the harvest...of their organs.  When two clones figure it all out, they decide they want to live as other people do.  This has been my objection to cloning all along.  If we clone our own organs for replacement, I'm OK with that.  To clone another me....scary as that might be......and to murder for harvest is clearly wrong.  Who cares if a clone has "ensoulment" or not.  Life is life, and a life that is self aware and can be part of the moral community is to be protected.  Check it out!  it has Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson (NICE!!!!!)