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/^t/The opportunities that the modern biotechnology may provide in future are definitely tempting to consider. But at the same time we have to make up our minds whether gaining the mastery of human life is really desirable and what costs we as society and individuals are prepared to pay. Do we really want to live in a world of carefully bred superhumans where the intrusion of science into private lives will become a norm leaving no room for spontaneous nature? Do we really want to play God? Are we ready for it? I think not, with the recent war in Bosnia and Hertzegovina, the Muslim-Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel, famine in North Corea and other regions, the tests of nuclear power on the Pacific there is still plenty to do let alone cloning people.