One question that I have after last week’s discussion is whether or not Ishiguro is trying to make an argument about the ethics revolving biomedical research such as cloning or stem cell research. Is he trying to argue whether or not it’s wrong to harvest clones of their organs or stem cells of embryos? I think that it could be a possibility that he is arguing that it’s unethical through this story of potential lives clones may lead if we ever advance technologies enough to create human clones.
I think we might have already discussed this next topic a little bit, but was still wondering if ignorance really is a bliss. Were some of the guardians right about having the students more informed about the lives that are laid out before them? What can we make of Miss Lucy’s speech on page 81 explaining why the students can’t go to America to become famous and what we make of the students response, “Well so what? We already knew all that.”
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