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Greed has been around since man has been on this planet. Even if we liven in a utopian society where everyone's basic needs were met, greed would still exist. Another problem with this question is that the ethical considerations of the next century will be tough to resolve in any event. Will it be considered ethical to create a full size human clone just to use as spare parts for the donor? Is it greed that would drive a company to create these clones or simply concern for the donor driving a company to "acquire" body parts and organs with the lowest possible rejection rate at known high quality levels?

If you're curious about the kinds of ethical questions we may be facing in the 21st century just look at some science fiction novels or latest science journals. Its not uncommon for scientists to try to find out if we can do a thing before they ask if we should do a thing. This isn't necessarily done out of greed. It often happens because scientists are curious. In our society much of what we do is driven by the dollar. We spend money of the things we want and don't spend money on the things we don't want. If we want clones to supply us with spare parts enough to spend our money, then the clones are likely to exist eventually. In fact historically if any large group of people want something badly enough they're likely to find a way to get it. They might try to buy what they want, or change the laws to fulfill their desires, or in extremes go to war. The ethics of a situation rarely seem to stand in the way of people getting what they want. An example of this would be the current divorce rate in America. A hundred years ago it was considered disgraceful for a couple to get divorced and many people didn't even feel the option was available to them due to religious concerns. Now divorce is so common that the school system has had to adapt to deal with single parents.

A good question is: What would cause people to act more ethically in the 21st century? Would even an apocalypse change the nature of mankind or would we become even more savage? If governments created machines that grew enough food and built enough homes and made enough clothes for the whole world cheaply enough to give away freely to everyone; would we become better people? If a way was discovered to download all human knowledge directly into a persons brain so that we all had the same level of knowledge; would we be any more inclined to agree with each other than we are now? If we can't even agree on what constitutes ethical behavior, it would seem that our hopes of acting more ethically towards each other would seem to go down as the number of ethical challenges rise.

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