I want a clone!

[Carl Price]

Originally posted by clydefo In another thread, Web Gecko said: “I think Xeroxing people tampers with something which intrinsically defines who and what we are. Again it is like cheapening and devaluing an individual human life.” What is the “something” referred to? Rather than a “cheapening and devaluing” does not all the effort and expense expended to create another useful individual or to cure disease signify that life is highly valued? Having been deliberately created for the good purpose of maintaining another person’s (me) quality of life, my spare-parts clone in a sense has a greater nobility than I do.

Unless you can clone a full adult and then kill it after parts removal, or can specify which parts you want, someone is going to be responsible for the upkeep of this clone. Shouldn't you be this person?

I like the idea of cloning full adults with full knowledge from that adult's brain. (Heck, if you are wishing you might as well wish for what you want). Then you just kill the original and let the clone step in and lead his life, only with a new body. That way no one really ever dies. Of course we would have to outlaw babies to keep the world from overpopulation.

Think about it, your brain with all your knowledge lives on forever, and with a little genetic engineering while producing the adult clone, flaws can be eliminated. Every time the body wears out, clone another. Works for me, I'm too old for frequent sex anyway.

[EVERYTHING ABOVE WAS SAID TONGUE IN CHEEK. I DON'T REALLY MEAN IT.]

[clydefo]

Carl Price,

I suppose I would be willing to pay for it myself if pressed, that’s fair. But since such a program would do so much to promulgate a comfortable middle-class lifestyle, the expenses incurred should, like the home mortgage interest deduction, be a tax write-off.