Prejudice in science fiction
Of course clones have been looked down upon in the history of sci-fi film and tv, mainly because of the morality of cloning human beings for the sake of commerce. After all, look what happened to Mr. Tyrell in Blade Runner, “More human than human, that’s our motto, Mr. Deckerd, commerce…etc..”
BTW, RACHEL was a ‘good’ clone in that movie.
The problem is not with the cloning process so much as it is with the people or organizations doing the cloning, and for what reasons. Selfish ones? Perhaps to breed armies of identical super-beings for the purpose of warfare? Or breed subhuman slaves meant to do our dirty work? The chances of that happening are not as far off as you’d think, given the history of the human race’s penchant for violence, depravity, and greed.
Perhaps the idea of an identical person just like you scares you, I myself, would feel much sorrier for the clone of me than I would of myself, for I know what I had to endure to get to where I am now, and wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemies..to think that a genetically identical copy would be out there, would cause me to help them avoid all the hardships I’ve endured, much like a parent might with their own child.
There’s also the expected religious reaction to cloning, as if the person would have “no soul” or whatever, which is patently ridiculous, any life that manages to make it to conciousness certainly would have a soul, per se…and NO, clones wouldn’t die when we do, etc, since environment plays a huge part in how the quality of life is determined. Two identical people (e.g. twins) could grow up in two different environments, and have totally different outcomes, health issues or even preferences in food.
Hey, it’s all just a big cosmic crap-shoot, anyway… [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] [img]images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]