> You know as well as I, that somebody, somewhere will be cloning children not for childless parents, but to build a private army, or something like that.

That's right. Just like how garage door openers are bad because they emit a frequency that can be detected by criminals. Then those criminals can get in your garage by simply getting a laptop with a special emitter, getting within 50 feet of you when you use your garage openner, and then coming back later! Eventhough they could have just hit the door with a sledge hammer, if they really wanted in. There are much more efficient ways to build your own private army than by cloning.

>This, I fear, would be the most abused technology in the history of the world.

... did you think about this before you said it? There are guns and bombs and gas chambers and telemarketing.

>And what's wrong with adoption? There are thousands of children ready to be adopted, with thousands more potentially out there, if people would stop killing them.

That's right. I'm sick of all these professional baby-murdering companies we've got around now a days. I can't believe no one has thought to stop killing babies. It seems like a logical decision, but who am I to say. You can't fight city hall and all that.

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> > Of course, there are some people who think that you shouldn't play God - but we have been doing that for centuries. There's no reason to stop now...
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> We haven't been unnaturally creating children before, have we? I think that is a hell of a lot worse than a heart transplant.
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Unnaturally shunnaturally. What makes something unnatural?

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> > Chrico "Don't clone Hitler, whatever you do" Rinotir
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> It doesn't matter if you clone Hitler. In order to duplicate what his predecessor did, he would have to have the exact same life experiences. Which would be very impractical to do. Same with cloning Babe Ruth, Einstein, or Mother Teresa. Having the same physical body does not automatically mean they will become the same person. Look at a pair of identical twins, for instance. Very, very, similar, but not the same.

I agree with you there. Although I do think Einstein would come up with new scientific ideas, and that Babe Ruth would end up playing baseball.

Wes