Advantages of Cloning?

What advantages would cloning have over regular reproduction and vice versa?

The first, as usually obvious advantage of cloning over regular reproduction is that you can perpetuate good genes. If the parent has no bad genes, no bad genes will carry over to the clone. The obvious disadvantage of this is the opposite problem; if the parent has a bad gene, the bad gene would be passed on to clone. Cloning, reduces genetic variance, which is, all in all, a very bad thing; if a single disease or illness infects one person with a bad gene, it will likely effect many more because this bad gene exists in many people. Cloning also may interfere with natural evolution, given that we are not working to eliminate bad genes, and are decreasing genetic variance. I do not think that this is particularly a problem for humans because I think we have the ability to be the end of natural evolution. I do, however, think that this would be a problem if we decided to clone non-animals. We should certainly allow non-human animals to continue to evolve through evolution.