Anakin Reese Conn- Assignment 6

1. If every nation could work together to vastly improve living conditions of every continent one-at-a-time, which continent would be the best first candidate?
2. Between clones and robots, which would be easier to fully integrate into society?
3. If our present technology is capable of transplanting any part of you to a person who needs it, at what point do you stop giving away your body, or do you give anything at all?
(I'm going to answer 2, as it is a topic I've spent some time thinking about, unlike 1 and 3 which I had just came up with for this blog.)
Although neither clones nor robots are real in the way clones and robots are real in Alien: Resurrection to our knowledge, both would be difficult groups to integrate into society, as both are, in different ways, not human.
Clones are the result of taking an original human and making another one in a surrogate test tube, meaning that society would treat clones like other groups throughout history, as though they don't belong, or that they are disposable sub-humans.  Integrating clones into a society would likely be difficult, unless the clones aren't like certain clones that turn into potato salad after a couple years, and they 're not sterile, they could form their own group and eventually be accepted, as clones that reproduce may form different humans than their sources did themselves.  Although I'm not a scientist, I've read before that something can't be cloned without some kind of genetic degeneration, meaning that clones could easily end in failure if technology preventing such disasters isn't present.  My personal belief is that clones can't be a true replica of another person, but just a different version of that person.  My other personal belief is that cloning would lead to identification problems, as one clone could steal or even kill the original and claim his place in society if the two were similar enough.  Now that I think about it, clones in this light are disturbing, and they would end as a failure in society, or possibly over populate the streets and act as pests.
Robots are another issue entirely, as they involve humans creating a new thought process instead of bootlegging  human consciousness through cloning.  If you've seen the movie I, Robot, you would readily understand the problems that integrating robots into society would cause.  If you haven't seen I, Robot, it involves problems created by the 3 laws of robotics, which are of set of morals robots must follow that were created by man in an attempt to mimic human consciousness.  These laws had loopholes that allowed the robot's consciousness to enslave humanity to prevent it from harming itself, meaning that the integration of robots into society could lead to the destruction of society.  In the context of this movie, robot rebellions are a cake-walk in comparison to clones, as the robots have an electronic counter, while clones can blend in with society because of their quality of already being a copy of a real person. 
So in the end, implementing either clones or robots into society is dangerous, as they could both easily destroy society, but robots are, if controlled, less dangerous than the uncontrollable clones, making robots the better option.