This paper will attempt to address what is perhaps the single most life altering issue facing
             our societies today. It is life altering in the utmost sense of the word, literally altering life as we
             know it. Life on this planet has undergone some significant changes since the dawn of civilization;
             the discovery of fire, the wheel, the industrial revolution, and the list goes on. The industrial
             revolution brought perhaps the most significant changes to society as a whole, for it was at this
             point that we moved from a fuedal society to a capitalist society. Industrialization took the men
             off the land and put them into the positions of wage earners working for someone else, merely
             supplying labor. Women on the other hand, were forced into the home looking after the child
             rearing and looking after the man so he was able to go out into the world to sell his labor, the
             domestication of women so to speak. This was never a healthy system as it made very clear the
             divisions between those who had and those who had not, a division between the owners of the
             means of production and the working class. Out of this division has arisen conflict, for it was
             inevitable that the working class would come to resent the opportunities denied to them but so
             freely given to others. The world has seen the result of this conflict in the form of tax revolts,
             revolutionary wars, and misguided attempts at Marxism. These conflicts and revolutions have had
             their effects on society but nothing significant or long lasting has prevailed. There is a new type of
             revolution on the horizon which has the potential to not only change society as we know it, but if
             we are not very vigilant in its use, has the potential to change the species itself. This new
             revolution is a technological revolution of a different order, for this new technology tinkers with
             the very heart of the species, the human Genome. Cloning, the reproduction of the ideal...