One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such a ban universal.