Getting used to new norms

We have grown cautious. Or at least we have as voters. As consumers, we may well act differently. Cloning may well happen not because the majority approves, but because the minority acts. That, after all, was roughly what happened in the case of test-tube babies. Society never decided to allow them; it just got used to the idea that those who desperately wanted such babies were able to have them.

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