Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[Math Junkie]

Who will their parents be?"

The woman who gives birth to the clone and her husband, if she's married.

The government?

Why should the government have any more to do with it than a regular baby?

What would be wrong with cloning armies?

Cloning would not make it any easier to raise armies than any other way of increasing fertility. Someone still has to give birth to the child and raise it, and that's a hugely larger commitment of resources than merely conceiving it.

I think the science fiction genre has really done us a disservice by misleading the public with such notions as clones growing up faster than normal and having their DNA-donor's knowledge, experience, and personality, all of which are nonsense. A clone and its DNA-donor would have about the same similarity as twins who were raised by different parents.