[Poohbah]

My alternative, in the short run, would be preferable to cloning FULL humans right?

Wrong.

Deliberately tampering with a human being's DNA solely to be able to say "it isn't human, REALLY" is pretty despicable.

What happens if your instructions don't work properly, and you create a human being with a brain--even an atrophied vestige of a brain? Gosh, what the heck do you do? Throw it in the dumpster?

[Skywalk]

Uh, how would tampering with the sample THEN cloning the sample(sans certain coding) be wrong?

You'd have a better argument if you said that you should not change the coding of a full human to an incomplete one.

As for if somehow something goes wrong, well jeez, if something goes wrong with anything I guess we should just sit still and not leave the house.

Somethin' might go wrong. BTW, are you a death penalty proponent?