zen_tom

This is exactly the kind of idea that shows how ignorant people are about what cloning actually is. Do you think that by cloning your Grandad, the foetus that is born is going to have any idea who you are? Do you think you might *POSSIBLY* have a similar relationship with a child who, instead of being 50+ years older than you, might be instead 10 years younger? Is it because you mistakenly think that the clone will be fully grown, with memories etc? If so, then please educate yourself.

Cloning yourself out of the interests of vanity or narcissism? In what way exactly is changing a daiper for 3 years either vein, or narcissistic? In what way is saving to put a child through school and college vein or narcissistic? Sure the child will have exactly the same genes as you, but its experiences and personality will be different, just as a naturally concieved child's experience and personality would be different. If having your own child is vein or narcissistic, then perhaps you are right.

Likewise, growing a clone for harvesting organs is evidently silly. What's to stop them getting up and walking away? It's not going to happen, but I repeat, it's not CLONING per say that holds the moral issue, it's how human beings interact with other human beings.

I will go more gently on some of your other points: Yes there are plenty of other easier ways to have children, and yes, there are plenty of children who would benefit greatly from having an adoptive home. Given the position of not being able to pass on my genes naturally, and having the option of either going through a risky (for the foetus) and expensive (for me) process of cloning, or adopting. I would probably adopt. But I still don't see anything morally wrong with taking the cloning route once the techniques are well grounded.