Acts of self-indulgence enslave and corrupt our capacity to love. It is the only means we have to draw out from our animality the traits that define our humanity. On the surface, the cloning of adult human DNA seems filled with the promise of life and health. But implicit in the language of cloning is a destructive logic that contradicts any possibility of authentically human love, the paradigm of which is the fruitful love of spouses for one another and for their child. We cannot know what kind of organism will result from the human nuclear-transfer experiments now legalized in Britain, but one thing is certain.
Cloning is the recreation of a human being in isolation.
And that is the angst we should feel in the Age of Dolly.