But none of this addresses the issue of why cloning scares the pants off most people. This is because it seems so unnatural, so artificial. It reeks of a smoking test tube and a luminous petri dish. And yet my sister and I are living proof that cloning is a naturally occurring phenomenon. Long before Messrs Antinori and Boisselier hit the headlines, cloning was as run of the mill as curly red hair or freckles - although an entire generation of Annies would, admittedly, be a pretty scary prospect.
{it's not the freakiness so much as the fingerprints on the human shape, cloning, GM humans, all that. it's that the mindless soulless heartless automata that now dominate scientific 'progress' will be turning over their results to the inhuman freaks that now run the world. and forget the idea of immortality in a test tube, harvesting new bodies, new organs, that's where the immortality lies. and it's all about freezing life the way it suits you, that's where the crime is, as though there's nothing else here but what you grab. the frightening prospect of evolutionary opportunists transcending, when the thorn has trumped the rose at last.}
