Clones as Guardians

I found it to be an interesting choice to use "regular" people as Guardians, rather than keeping the entire cloning system a bit more self-contained by filling those roles with clones. The clones at no point (at least through the first 19 chapters) seem to have any will to change their role in the world. The only attempt at subversion that is demonstrated throughout most of the book is by Miss Lucy, a non-clone. The clones do seem to have all of the other responses of "normal" people, with the exception of an utter willingness to accept their pre-determined lot. By making this so easy for the clones to accept, does it make it easier for us as readers to accept as well? So far the book has not really evoked any sympathy in me for the clones; their lives are odd and sad but their own lack of any attempt at change has left me feeling like more of a detached viewer than Miss Lucy struck me as. (We'll see if something in the last few chapters changes this for me this afternoon.)

I just realized that I may not have been explicit in my main point which is: If the clones offer no resistance to the accepted order, I think we could argue that even if they were placed in the (distasteful?) role of Guardians, they would still be unlikely to make an attempt to change the way things are.