It's basically no different than having an identical twin. We can all agree that two twins are different people, who each have different likes and dislikes, and learn about the world in a different way. The same would be true for your clone.
Also, a natural offspring can often take on more physical traits of one parent rather than the other. Cloning simply guarantees that the offspring will take on ALL of the traits of one parent, rather than be a random blending of the two. Just by random chance you might naturally give birth to something that is not far off from a clone.
I can see an ethical argument to be made of you making a clone of yourself, that you raise. DEFINITELY NOT making clones of other people though.
Is it normal that I think we should legalize Cloning?
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I don't think cloning is that big of a deal.
It's basically no different than having an identical twin. We can all agree that two twins are different people, who each have different likes and dislikes, and learn about the world in a different way. The same would be true for your clone.
Also, a natural offspring can often take on more physical traits of one parent rather than the other. Cloning simply guarantees that the offspring will take on ALL of the traits of one parent, rather than be a random blending of the two. Just by random chance you might naturally give birth to something that is not far off from a clone.
I can see an ethical argument to be made of you making a clone of yourself, that you raise. DEFINITELY NOT making clones of other people though.