Cloning and harm to offspring.

First I think one good way to look at the cloning issue,1 is to remember what Descartes asked you to imagine: a different sort of world, though not one in which an evil genius is running things or you are only dreaming.2 Rather, imagine you are under a massive delusion about the way in which you were actually produced. Everything about you remains as you are now, except that you are not the product of sexual reproduction, but of mono-parental cloning. Would you think that your rights changed dramatically? I do not think you would. The question of the historical process of events that leads to the existence of a certain sort of being can, for the most part, be distinguished from the value of the entity that is produced and what gives it value.3 And that is one of the most important things to remember in this area.4