Hey Dananah you just brought a very sensible issue about the reproductive cloning. Yes u are right it is the environment that would decide what a child would be in the future. There are some misconceptions that cloning would copy exactly the same individual! It is true that cloning copies the genetic make up of an individual but it is not necessary that it would copy the intellectual capability of that individual. Cloning can not copy the mental cognition of your brain into the brain of ur clone. What I mean to say here is that you can not expect a clone of Mandela where that cloned child (little Mandela) would exactly behave in the way Mandela did in his life time! I have even doubt about the physical posture (height, weight and other outward appearances) of that would be little Mandela. That?s why u are right, why human cloning at the first place? You don?t to have physical copies of individuals in this highly populated world. Science is to seek solutions for complex things instead of contributing another complex in the network of complexes of present world. Nut