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Mr. Schulman,

Thank you for posting this. I wholeheartedly agree with you on this issue.

Never before have I seen such hatred for science and irrational fear dominate the mainstream. It seems like the only science fiction people are consulting is Attack of the Clones. Of course, we're nowhere near being able to breed and train thousands or millions of clones for an army and in a world where that is possible, we'll have other very important concerns. It also is quite obvious that if a Hitler or Stalin were in power and could deter an attack, they would breed such an army ANYWAY, despite silly international debates about the matter.

I am quite upset when I think of the millions of people that would be sentenced to die so that some politician can assuage his or the public's fear of a technological breakthrough. I see, it's OK to have weapons that can annihilate millions of people, but it's not OK to even research duplicating human genetic material.

Outlaws and rogue states will do as rogue states and outlaws do, banning cloning only helps them. I'm still trying to see where the fear is coming from on this issue. I think, sadly, it boils down to two things:

1)Fear of clone armies--really, I think this is the main fear, sadly.

2)People having too much "choice" with life. Just as there are people who don't think you should get plastic surgery EVER, even if you were born with a misshapen nose, there will be those who think we must "accept" whatever fate assigned to us by the Creator. This ignores the fact that nearly every aspect of modern civilization is a refusal to accept our original fates.

My Kobe Tai clone is on back order.

I am not afraid of a cloned army. I believe it to be a fool's errand, destined to failure, because there is no way to control the process the way a totalitarian leader would want it.

I'm not really sure what the point of a clone army would be. You'd have to wait 18 years to have it, and you'd have to enlist hundreds of thousands of surrogate mothers. Even then you have no guarentee they're going to turn out any better than an non-clone army.