But an actual clone is not an adult but an egg cell implanted in a woman to begin a normal pregnancy. If you were cloned today, nine months from now a woman would give birth to a baby with your genetic endowment. The cloned baby would be your identical twin, delayed a generation. Some fear the specter of mass cloning of one individual, especially cloning of sadistic monsters, as in The Boys from Brazil , Ira Levin's nightmarish projection of cadres of young Hitlers spawned from the dictator's genes. It is one's mind, not one's genes, that governs who one is.
Man is a rational animal.
As such, his identity is self-made. Man's basic choice is to think or not to think, in Ayn Rand's famous phrase, and one's conclusions, values, character will differ according to the extent and quality of his thinking. Genes provide the capacity to reason, but the exercise and guidance of that capacity is up to each individual, from the birth of his reasoning mind in infancy through the rest of his life. Neither genes nor environment can implant ideas in a child's mind and make him accept them. Cloning the body will not clone the mind.