[Skywalk]

LOL

I'm not getting where you're referring to creating human beings(with or without programmed defects.)

Are you referring to the current use of embryos in cloning?
If that is the case, then I won't disagree with you.

However, I'm speaking of cloning of material, similar to taking DNA from blood or an organ or whatever and using that to clone organs or limbs even(with stem cells)

Now, I realize that to get to that stage of cloning technology, embryos and their stem cells are of importance to researchers, but I don't believe that is the ONLY way.

What I'm referring to is impractical now, but need not be impossible forever.

Would you still be opposed to THAT type of cloning(wherein no human was created.)

But then, it seems you think that anything that isn't part of your body that's cloned from original material is another human being. I don't see how that's the case, unless it is an embryo or fetus.

[Poohbah]

But then, it seems you think that anything that isn't part of your body that's cloned from original material is another human being. I don't see how that's the case, unless it is an embryo or fetus.

That's the problem: it IS an embryo or fetus.

Your proposal is so far beyond "speculative," it's somewhere around "polywater," "cold fusion," and "unobtanium."