Re: cloning

2) Cloning is not a way to make everyone the same any more than natural reproduction is. (I think it would be a very bad idea to try to make everyone the same myself.)

To make everyone the same, there would have to be one dictator telling women what sort of clones they could and couldn't have.

In nature, people have personal autonomy about who they marry and have children with.

In my opinion, it is vital that cloning remain this way as well (meaning that those who will expend the efforts to bear and raise the child also decide its genes).

If this autonomy of the individual is not respected, then I would be the first to consider it unethical.

Since one woman can only have so many children in her lifetime (it's not like puppies, where a litter is born all at once) --- and she will have to consider how she will raise all of the children she has --- there is little chance that one person can dominate the gene pool, thereby making too many people of the same genetic make-up.

In societies where men can have multiple wives, this does raise a few red flags in my mind about one person dominating the gene pool too much with their own genetic material.

But then that is the same in their case as well as with (possibly) rapists (or ANYONE who doesn't bother about the marriage thing). They have the potential to "imbalance" (so to speak) the whole gene pool.