IT’S A FUKUYAMA FEEDING-FRENZY! Take that, Jonah! Josh Chafetz at OxBlog says this:

On foreign policy, he says that September 11 “was a reminder to Americans of why government exists, and why it has to tax citizens and spend money to promote collective interests. It was only the government, and not the market or individuals, that could be depended on to send firemen into buildings, or to fight terrorists, or to screen passengers at airports.” Well, yes. But most libertarians recognize the need for limited government, which includes things like police and the military. Virginia Postrel and Brink Lindsey — two libertarian luminaries — have been relentless in their attacks on anti-war libertarians. And the problem with airport security was not that the screeners weren’t government officials, but rather that federal guidelines about what was okay to take aboard flights didn’t prohibit box cutters. No one ever thought that box cutters would be used to hijack a plane. So government screeners wouldn’t have made a bit of difference.

But what Fukuyama is really interested in is cloning. He’s not even interested in talking about therapeutic cloning. No, he goes right for the big one: reproductive cloning. He tries to present a non-theological argument against reproductive cloning. Here it is: “Children do not ask to be born, of course, but it is a stretch to assume the informed consent of a child to be born deaf, or a clone, or genetically redesigned in a risky experiment.” This is a cheap rhetorical trick: he sandwiches being born “a clone” in between being born deaf and having risky procedures carried out on you. Let’s put aside the risk involved in reproductive cloning because Fukuyama’s argument isn’t that cloning is too risky right now — it’s that it should never be allowed, ever, regardless of any advances in medical technology. In other words, for Fukuyama, being born a healthy clone is the equivalent of being born deaf or forcibly undergoing a risky experiment.

What? Why on earth would this possibly be? Because you’d know that there was someone else wandering around out there with the same DNA as you? Does Fukuyama think that identical twins suffer from a disability akin to deafness?

It gets even better.