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There's an interesting article on yahoo regarding another break through in human cloning. The excerpt that I'm most interested in is where they talk about the Bush administration wanting a ban on all human cloning. To Bush: you are not God. For someone who easily was able to dictate the lives of Iraq and other countries as well as your own country, you easily boast standards from your own accord without the necessary balance of other people's opinions! Countries are meant to be sovereign. Although we live in an increasingly globalized and multicultural environment, we don't have the rights inherently to dictate everyone's lives. Only God and the universe itself can do that. Going back the human cloning, there's no good reason to ban it at least from an initial medical perspective. We haven't, as a society and race, explored the possibilities of what human cloning can do for our lives. Banning cloning is like banning free speech; we don't know the consequences because we are not prescient. However, one thing for certain is that by banning such practices on faith alone, we prevent ourselves from seeing new possibilities. But this will be akin to the acceptance of Darwinism. Gradually, more societies will accept these practices as it becomes apparent that we need to discover more methodologies to increasing the sustainability of our species. The ones who prevent such sustainability will slowly (and painfully through alienation) be snuffed out. In general, I think as long as such methodologies are not abused and do not hinder our sustainability (such as creating a superior race that ends up wiping ourselves out), then we should continue pioneering these activities going forward.