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            Ever since the first animal clone, Dolly the sheep, was successfully produced in 1996 the issue of cloning has been a hotly contested issue throughout the world. Cloning was no longer a fantasy people dreamt up but was bahhing in their face. Immediately the issue of cloning was thought of in the context of its application to humans. People had always dreamt of the possibility of being to reproduce the greatest people of a given generation and Dolly's success had brought mankind one step closer. When applied to use on the general population though, cloning should never be made legal because it would destroy human diversity. Human diversity entails the unique abilities of individuals which includes such attributes as cognitive ability and physical appearance and that each of these unique people contributes something different and meaningful to the world.
             For hundreds of millions of years life on earth has evolved using Darwin's principle of survival of the fittest. Those who have random mutations that give them survival advantages are the ones who continue to breed. Reproduction is a genetic game of chance. If people who were lucky enough to be born with selective advantages were able to clone themselves, then the world genetic pool would be impoverished and could be potentially skewed towards those few. Only those who could afford the high monetary costs would reproduce asexually. There would be no creation of fewer new individuals since there would be no genetic mixing. Humanity's survival could be endangered.
             If cloning were allowed, even on a small scale, it would lead down a very slippery slope eventually leading to wholesale cloning. Engaging in wholesale cloning is like suffering through an inflationary economy, the more money that's created the less a currency is worth. The same is true with clones. We could theoretically have hundreds of the same person being simultaneously produced which would not only reduce genetic diversity but further widen the gap between the haves and have nots.


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