Mich. Cloning technology is here, for better or for worse, and it won't be gotten rid of. I fear that somewhere down the road, the wrong people with the wrong agenda will do what we all fear. If we ban the use of this technology now, we will not be prepared to deal with this eventuality. Knowledge is power. If we utilize this technology and become familiar with it and set up international laws and guidelines for its utilization, however, we will be better prepared for the misuses that will eventually plague us.
Cloning is a tool and, as such, is good or bad according to the use it is put to by human beings.
I strongly believe we should proceed with great caution into this new frontier. Utah Very simply, cloning changes Western culture's view of what it means to be human. It brings into question the fundamental assumptions concerning personal existence and self-worth in comparison to other organisms. Humans become less special. I think the effects will be similar to those following Galileo Galilei's argument that the earth traveled around the sun.