Persons and their copies

Is clotting human beings morally wrong? The basis ibr the one serious objec tion to cloning is that, because of what a clone is, clones would have much worse lives than non-clones. I sketch a fragment of moral theory to make s ense of the objection. I then outline several ways in which it might be cla imed that, because of what a clone is, clo,les would have much worse lives than non-clones. In particular, I leak at various ideas connected with auto nomy. I conclude that there is no basis to the claim that. because of what a clone is, clones would have much worse lives than non-clones. I therefore ,reject the claim that cloning human beings is morally wrong.