to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized adult." As a result of this genetic breeding, there are, of course, no family structures or relationships. Instead, human beings are raised in conditioning centers. Children raised without parents in this way will be unaffectionate and unable to have real emotions or truly love. Another threat posed by the Bokanovsky process is that life is not highly valued anymore. The value has been lost because human life can be substituted easily. "Murder kills only the individual and, after all, what is an individual? With a sweeping gesture he indicated the rows of microscopes, the test-tubes, the incubators. We can make a new one with the greatest ease- as many as we like." Furthermore, Bokanovsky's mass production method prevents individuality, since all people are cloned. Starting from the time of decanting, each cloned embryo is genetically altered to grow up as a member of
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