Of course, cliches and platitudes generally get to be such because they contain hard kernels of truth, and these, as they relate to cloning, do just that. There probably is no containing it, either, since it is relatively simple and inexpensive, and those with means will find a way to purchase what they want - even genetically identical copies of themselves. Well, yes, it IS radically different from such ways. That has to make a difference in how they relate to each other.
Cloning is radically different in another way.
Cloning oneself, by contrast, would seem the ultimate self-regarding act, an assertion by the cloned that he or she needs and wants no one else. All this speculation about the implications of human cloning may seem premature at worst, overwrought at best. After all, it was just a sheep that the Scottish scientists cloned. Even assuming that it can be done with humans, an attempt must be years in the future. E.W. Scripps Publications , All Rights Reserved.