Argumentative essay

[Magdalenaa]

If you are going to argue either for or against cloning you should first indicate that you know something about it. For example, if you clone a person you do not get an identical individual. If you would clone me you would not get another me because that person would start life as a baby.

Cloning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Well, I know something about it. This fragment is isolated from the whole text, it doesn't say anything whether I know the suject or not. And I do now. That's just a digression to make public laugh. And it would be highly appreciated if you focused on the technical side, please.

[RonBee]

If you would clone a human being you would not get an individual that is identical to the parent.

[Magdalenaa]

If you would clone a human being you would not get an individual that is identical to the parent.

Gosh, people, I have already explained. If you want to I can provide you with the whole article to convince you that I DO KNOW something about cloning.



Well, in Polish there's a saying, which more or less goes: Can you count? Count on yourself. :D
There's corrected version of the problematic fragment:
When thinking about cloning dead creatures, a subtle divagation comes to my mind. One of ignorant people’s beliefs is that if in the wrong hands, cloning technology could lead to duplicating malevolent human beings such as Adolph Hitler. Which, of course, sounds irrationally.

How do you like it?

[RonBee]

Possibly:

One belief of ignorant people is....

The writer is saying that he is, of course, not one of those ignorant people.

[RonBee]

Another (kinder, gentler) way of saying it:

A popular but mistaken belief is....