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What ethical standard should publishers and authors meet?
SC ( 12/09/2003, 00:15:58 )The main question I've been asking myself after reading this advertisement is how harsh my criticism of it should be. I haven't read the book, but based on what I've read here, I'm reluctant to support an author and publisher that use the promotional tactics displayed here. This seems more like controversy for controversy's (and profit's) sake than a responsible examination of cloning issues. The book may be quite different from the blurb, but many people are likely to see only the advertisement and never read the book.Even if the book and/or interviews give a favorable view of human cloning, the questions posed here and by the author (on the website I found, at least) are the literary equivalent of entrapment; the author and publisher might fight ignorance and prejudice, but ignorance and prejudice that they encouraged in the first place.As far as insight or an earnest attempt to seek the truth are concerned, what I've read above doesn't promise much value for the money. People who want answers to the sorts of questions posed in this advertisement can find them posted here for free. That is, if they haven't come up with some good answers of their own already, or moved past the point where they even ask such questions anymore. Most people who come to this site pose questions such as those posed in the advertisement because they don't know any better, or because they want to know better. The author and publishers either should know better, or already do, and I consider it dishonest and immoral for them to pretend otherwise. I have chosen to use the word "immoral" here because morality is more commonly associated with what is best for society at large, whereas the word "ethics" is used more often in a professional sense; an employee following the ethical guidelines designed to bring profit to a corporation may not be making a net positive contribution to society as a whole if the corporation generates profit at the expense of others.
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