the clone question

[Lord Bowser]

scenario; you're in the distant future with highly advanced technology. you are able to successfully create a 100% exact clone of yourself, literally perfect down to every last detail. you then kill this 100% perfect clone of yourself. is this considered murder or suicide? discuss.

 

[Superchao]

murder

as soon as you clone them, they become an independent being of you. even if they're your duplicate they're not YOU you and your own consciousness

therefore, you are killing someone else

 

[Xiahou Ba]

Most definitely murder, there's no other way you can spin it.

it's already possible to have duplicates of each other. It's called "identical twins". We're born from a single cell at birth, but we split apart, therefore having mostly identical genes. We may react identical and have similar brain chemistry, but we're still distinct individuals. It's the most similar we can get to each other and we still firmly think that we our ourselves rather than our twin sister, even though we look and think alike. I know that identical twins don't look and think 100% alike, but looking into a mirror is far different than looking at a clone of yourself.

How do I know this? Um...bet most of you forum goers know already.

 

[Xiahou Dun]

Murder.

Unless somehow you can share consciousness or sense of self or some crazy stuff like that as well. That's when it gets murky...

 

[fantanoice]

Why would you go to the effort to clone yourself if you were only going to kill your double

What if you are actually the clone and you killed your original

Wouldn't loving your clone be way more fulfilling given they, you know, like the same things you do...

These are the real questions

 

[freakworld]

murder because even if its a perfect clone its still worse than me

 

[NSY]

If we apply to the defibatintions of the dictionary then it's murder. You don't survive if you commit suicide while you do when you commit murder.

 

[Polymorph]

It's murder.

Just because it's exactly like you, it still isn't you, therefore making it a separate entity, not part of you at all.