Re: The Question of Identity

Of course any cloned human being should feel free to ask how many exact copies of their genetic make-up are out there, and where.

Ideally, in my opinion, there should not be too many of any one person.

I believe that societies evolved with so many of this personality type, and so many of that, and that we would be fools to try to change that, or make everyone the same.

There could be unexpected unknown long-term consequences, if wide-scale cloning were used for any ONE person's ideas or agenda.

This is why it will be essential that the individual autonomy of the parents' (who will carry, bear, and raise the child) is respected.

Meaning: the parents who will expend the efforts and energies to carry and raise the child need to be the determiners of the genetic make-up (as is the case in chosing a marriage partner or mate).

Inherent in maintaining this respect (for the individual parents as choosers of the genetic material), will be prevention of any one person from using cloning to take their own ideas and agenda to irrevocable future wide-scale social impacts, such as Hitler did when he "authorized" mass murder.

Another thought is that when I recently saw a picture of a man from Africa with multiple wives, and perhaps a couple of classrooms worth of children --- I could not help but speculate about whether or not five females are born for every one male, and doubting that, and thinking that this man sure is monopolizing the gene pool with all those wives --- whether or not he ever has anything to do with cloning.

How one man can support all of them is also questionable, and if the kids have to resort to and learn crimes to survive, that would also not be good.