[Askel5]

Missed the last half of the response, sorry:

There are also questions about identity and individuality that come really from the fact that the clone, while not a perfect copy of the original, is at least brought into being out of a desire to produce something like a replica of the original.

Our natural genetic distinctiveness is also a kind of emblem of the unique, never before to have lived and never to be repeated again trajectory of an individuated human life from birth to death.

But in cloning, a blueprint of a life that has already lived is somehow supposed to be reenacted once again. People find it hard to articulate their concerns in these ways, but they sense that what we're really talking about are efforts to redesign what a human being shall be.

Or, "reconstruction" as the callow Hillary called it.

[dheretic]

My biology text book said that there are only 8 Trillion known unique genetic combinations for homo sapien. Therefore it is not impossible that combinations won't repeat themselves. The DNA is not as important as the experiences of the individual. A clone that is loved and cared for in an upper class environment will probably be a much different person than the "original" person who is beaten periodically in a trailor or raised in the inner city