"Why would you be allowed to do it to a live person?" Because you are the government making the rules, or you have a few billion dollars and can easily hide it

"Why would you be allowed to do it to a live person?" Because you are the government making the rules, or you have a few billion dollars and can easily hide it. I'm not sure anyone's doing it, but if it is truly the case that nobody has cloned a human, it isn't because of "the rules". "The rules" don't apply to everywhere or to everybody.