Prejudice in science fiction
Good Lord, aren’t we deep and meaningful?
Well, what is it about clones that makes humans run around yelling about morality? I would say that it is because they are a copy of us. A COPY of US. It makes us feel weird thinking that we have a person identical in every way out there. And it raises lots of questions. Will they die when we die? Will they look like us? Will they carry the same diseases? Will they like the same things? When we die, will they be able to take our place without anyone knowing? Would they kill us in our sleep because everyone sees the clone as being inferior to the real thing? Who’s to say that we are the clones and they are the originals? Who’s to say we haven’t already been cloned by a superior race, or failing that the French? And who’s to say that there’s not a clone of me sitting at some computer somewhere, writing by the name of DalekTek790, having a cyber-conversation with a clone of herself???? [img]images/smiles/icon_razz.gif[/img]