Current cloning tech is not up to snuff yet to clone humans. Of the rats and sheep they clone today half die early/at birth and a good percentage of the others have or develope defects later on in life. To me thats no where close to a good enough percentage to have a human cloned.
That aside, once cloning is reliable enough to clone humans I personally would be against it. To me there are only three reasons for clones, one for "harvasting" of organs. Two, for bringing back the dead (like cloning Enstien, Babe Ruth or a dead relative) Three, a way for people who can't have kids to get a child.
I am against harvasting organs from clones for obvious reasons. I don't see any humane way of cloning a whole human and then "harvasting" the organs after they mature. The thought of whole warehouses full of incubating humans waiting for their organs to be ripped out of them just isn't really doing it for me. Having a sense of compassion for human life is my downside i guess
If they can clone individual organs, by all means go for it. I am more for stem cell research, it could solve alot of problems and make cloning for body parts pointless.
I am very against cloning people for novelty (ie. cloning yourself or a famous person) My reason is simple, people need to move on with there lives. Imagine your mother died and you cloned her, so what now? You have to raise a child version of your mother, she doesn't have the memorys of your mother, infact she could act totally different then her. What happens when Mom 2.0 tells you she hates you and is moving to Arkansas with a guy named Bob. I can't imagine the psycological effect, even though it wasn't your actual mom, it was still her exact image. After all that what did the cloning solve? All it did was prolong the mourning for the original deceased person by decades! (I used mother as an example, insert any deceased family member, freind, or yourself)
What about cloning "the great minds of society?" Well alot of good that would do, a clone is basically a physical copy not a mental copy. It would be like Enstiens's grandson, he would look identical to him but whos to say he would develope his way of thinking. How many other members of Enstiens family today are genious? Not to mention imagine the pressure and public scrutiny on the poor guy, he would probably go psyco before he was 20. (once again Enstien was the example insert any famous person in his place and it would be similar)
When it comes down to it that form of cloning is nothing more then people not being able to deal with death. People die, society needs to move on, can you imagine if they cloned all the great actors for the next 500 years? How fresh would that be at the box office seeing Pretty Women 26 starring Julia Roberts ver 14.0 Take those latest loonies that say they cloned a kid (yeah right) they are all about living forever (I guess they forgot that the brain also ages?) Would you really want to live forever? People just need to live with the fact that death is imminent.
As for cloning for reproduction, its well meaning but pointless. While I feel for the couple that can't have a kid, there are allready what, 5 billion people walking around. Adoption should be advertised on huge posters at in-vertro (sp?) clinics. Besides who would want to raise a copy of themselves :creepy: I have other nit-piky problems with this also but I'm tired off typing.