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Next, there is an objection not frequently encountered in scholarly discussions, but rather common in the popular press, involving scenarios where human beings are cloned in large numbers to serve as slaves, or as enthusiastic soldiers in a dictator's army. Such scenarios, however, seem very implausible. Is it really at all likely that, were cloning to become available, society would for some unknown reason decide that its rejection of slavery had really been a mistake? Or that a dictator who was unable to conscript a sufficient army from the existing citizenry could induce people to undertake a massive cloning program, in order that, eighteen years or so down the line, he would finally have the army he needed?