Via Cowen, Bryan Caplan admits:
I confess that I take anti-cloning arguments personally...I wish to clone myself and raise the baby as my son. Seriously. I want to experience the sublime bond I'm sure we'd share. I'm confident that he'd be delighted, too, because I would love to be raised by me. I'm not pushing others to clone themselves. I'm not asking anyone else to pay for my dream. I just want government to leave me and the cloning business alone. Is that too much to ask?
DeLong is quick to accuse Caplan of misogyny. Steve Sailer also criticizes:
Are families in which the sons are exactly like the fathers happier? I don't see a lot of evidence for that. In fact, I see a lot of evidence from memoirs and fiction that strong-willed fathers tend to have strong-willed sons, and the two clash relentlessly over who will be dominant. Too much similarity does not always make for happiness within a family.
Cowen didn't like the comments his first post inspired:
I found this thread to be a lesson in how quickly smart people will side with their Darwinian intuitions, and attack another smart person with intolerance, just because something feels icky to them. It's not so different from how some people find gay people, and also "what they do," to be disgusting. They also don't want gay people to be adopting children because they see that as offensive too. It's not, least of all for the child.