The opposition to cloning only matters if the men cloning themselves aren't giving you what you want. [For a while, he got away with as much as he wanted, too. That's the implication. But he's never been anywhere near as powerful as Johann.]

What I was before doesn't matter. It's what I wanted and what I learned to get what I wanted. That I was the next in line to take over Giles Bell, trained for those shoes, wasn't relevant. I just saw it as an inevitable means to an end.