^ Agreed. I personally would say there's nothing wrong if you use cloning for back-up of your precious hex coded friends. ^^
The club's just against using them for trading. But even then, my main concern is if some guy found an Uber Kyogre and spread it through WiFi or something. xD
If you haven't noticed, my fear of Kyogre is high, but I have my perfectly bred Dodrio to counter!
So personally for me (not anyone else's opinion) here's what I find acceptable in cloning:
Backing up your precious Pokes (hey, they might die in a freak accident) *stares at Mountain Dew inconveniently placed near DS Lite at time of post*
Using it to clone items like TMs for battling purposes (hey, not all TMs are infinite, and the good ones are usually expensive or one-offs)
Everything else in usage of cloning will go under Leebui's following category: Neutral.
As a collector/competitive battler (odd combination, I know) I want to my Pokemon to have full value. Also, I want my 3-seconds of joy when I perfectly breed an Zero IV across the board Rattata for a certain moveset breakthrough founded last month.
So I'm not going to bash cloners, and I think a neutral owner is nice, because then they can see from both sides.
Anyway, I'll add the points up on Friday when I'm school-less.