You have to be realistic on the subject of cloning. Cloning animals other than humans can be good for the research and development in cloning. Could cure world hunger and preserve a species from going extinct. The morality of that particularly is reduced because we're dealing with species we regularly do experiments on or kill to eat and survive. Then it isn't controversial because if anything, cloning on animals is essential for all positive reasoning and for advancement in science. Now cloning on human beings can be greatly controversial as you can see for example this thread will grow considerably just like the timothy mcveigh and the death penalty one did. The value of life in the current society is strong. I think before even beginning any scientific advancement on human cloning we should put some effort to create restrictions and laws that will enforce cloning to not be abused or taken to a degree that we would wish it not to. From a personal point of view I think that cloning would be a great risk to humanity. It is just another unnatural reality that is being introduced to the human species. Which means it doesn't follow the usual or ordinary course of nature. Cloning could bring on major defections in the clone that is produced. Unspecified abnormalities, unknown deaths, and deformities have been common with cloning animals. Then if human cloning does reach a level to which it could become public, the human population must become smart on the facts and reasoning provided from cloning. Like someone mentioned, you can't clone babe ruth, thinking he'll become a baseball great. Growing up in different times, different environments, with different opportunities and considering that we are born unto this earth not be be enslaved to a stupid conception would be the fundamental reasoning behind that. Even if you did clone babe ruth, he may not even look like him, thinking that he could be injured, deformed, thinner from exercise, larger, tanned, dyed hair, etc. To create an army is another concept that is rather stupid. The military of the future will consist of voluntary enlistees that could be considered civilians using machines to establish the likes of defense or offense towards that opposition. Like they already are into the prototypes for spyplanes with no pilot, but that of a human in a building sitting behind a computer in his country, controlling it by satellite. Parents could clone for their children, the only purpose I can see behind that is so they can determine what eye color, etc that their children would have. Parents who can't have children are sincerely better off adopting other children. Because the expense of it would be great and there are children who need parents. Cloning wouldn't help with over population either, people would go on a rampage to clone, clone, clone. I'm going to have 3 children and their going to be all cloned to my dna. Self egoed bastards are those types. Any other reasoning, like research, observation, or testing can be done with the first few hundred clones that are conjured. I try to still find a purposeful meaning behind cloning. Maybe they try to make profit from it, or just basic research for the advancement of science. Maybe their finding a common way to improve life for humans, or create a common system for humans to breed into. I don't like the way it may lead to a new hitler era, or a born-slaved society. Take it or leave it, there is more to cloning humans then scientific necessity to know that it can be done.
danny"but still I would love to clone myself"wyatt