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  • kboy101222@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    If and when we figure out human cloning, it’s sure going to bring up a near infinite number of legal issues. Is the clone a new person? Is their birthday yours or the day they were cloned? Are they the same age as you? Or is a clone a new born?

    If they are a copy of you, are they beholden to any legal agreements you’ve made? Are they liable for crimes you commit?

    These are the things I think about when stoned…

    • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      I read a good sci-fi book called “Six Wakes” by Mur Lafferty that touches on this topic, you might enjoy it.

      In the distant future cloning has become commonplace, but is used as a continuation of a person’s life. Ie a person is born, lives there life, and at the end they are cloned and their memories transferred over to the new body, and life goes on. Also, a person would make “backups” of their consciousness in case they were killed/died accidentally, and would be “reinstalled” in a clone.

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        7 months ago

        Sounds great! I’ll have to check that out!

        Honestly though, that sounds like the only way to do cloning without completely redoing every single law in every single country, city, state, Providence, county, parish, etc. The implications of cloning fascinates me way more than the cloning itself