> I'd rather be adopted than cloned.

The problem is that no-one gets to make that decision unit it's too late. Me, I can't see it makes any difference.

> And what if you met some other kid at school who says "Hi! I'm a clone of Babe Ruth" and you say "Oh really? So am I." So now there is ANOTHER one of you in existence. You've already existed, and now there's another one of you around. That would be like the time-travel scenario where if you traveled time and saw yourself, you'd explode or something like that. I don't think too many people could handle that kind of psychological strain. We'd have clones dropping like flies. I don't think it would be the same as discovering a long lost twin. I mean, that other Babe Ruth is YOU!

No. That "other Babe Ruth" is not you. It's far less you than an identical twin is. You would be very different people even before you were out of the womb. Just because you were cloned from the same person, means nothing to the Universe.

> And the expectations of being a clone! What if you were the next Jesse Owens or Carl Lewis, and everybody and their brother expected you to own the Olympics every year, and all you do is train your ass off, because after all, you are an exact copy of a world-class athlete. And you tear I don't know, your Achilles tendon or something, causing nearly irreperable harm to your body because all you do is run around a track all day. And you live the rest of your life knowing that you really ARE a failure, because your parents cloned you to be a track star, and now you're flipping burgers at McDonalds.

This is a problem with cloning famous people. And it would happen a lot. What made any of these people was more the circumstances they grew up in than in their genes. I imagine that any parent who wanted to have a clone of [insert famous person here] would be told in no uncertain terms that it was not likely that the clone would be anywhere near as good in their chosen profession as the donor was.

winter"And anyway, I need to build my army of robot jedi clones"mute