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A lot of people who are against cloning have a common reason which is cloning undermine the values of human life. In the article Genetic patenting and human dignity, the author claimed that many people would dispute the patenting of DNA sequences on the grounds that it treats humans as commodities because our genes are products of nature, we cannot claim them as an invention. Bruce, the professor of biochemistry at Duke University said “If they (genes) are nothing more than products of industry then I believe we are losing something of our humanity by putting them in the same box as widgets (Bruce, 2). What he is saying is that every single individual in the society is unique with all kinds of personalities and skills. If the scientists clone the DNA, human beings would lose the dignity. I could see some connection between this point and the Dollhouse. Instead of cloning genes and stem cells, the Dollhouse cloned personality and memory. All the dolls have lost their identity and are programmed into different people. According to a version known as principle of humanity, “we have a moral duty to treat all human beings as ends-in-themselves, not merely as means to other ends”. The Dollhouse is running a business of using people which devalues man-kind. Same with cloning: if the cloning technology started becoming big, human being would become very worthless because cloning could satisfy everything human beings ask for. Cloning is started treating human beings as commodities, so is the Dollhouse.