But I also notice that they drive cars, use telephones, surf the Net, watch TV, live in air conditioned houses, and cook with microwaves. In the long term, cloning offers the option of reproducing unusually happy, healthy, friendly, intelligent, and productive humans. What an outmoded ideal in a post-industrial age. Young, violent convicted criminals of reproductive age can be offered irreversible sterilization in exchange for vastly improved prison conditions, such as a larger and private cell, cable television, and a weekly stipend of, say, twenty dollars to buy luxuries from the prison dispensary. This could be the most effective cure for crime.
Many criminals can trace past criminals in their ancestry.
Those same individuals may be blessed with some very desirable traits. Those with college educations from accreditted state universities and secular private schools, as well as recognized experts in scientific and artistic fields, may be given incentives to reproduce in large numbers. One million dollars should be awarded for the 10th child surviving to the 3rd year. This system would reward those who have accomplished something tangible that benefits mankind. We can reduce crime and disease using selective breeding.