[Glenn Bartley]

ETHICAL QUESTION:

In light of the news of so-called "human cloning" going on, we have to ask ourselves this hypothetical question. If you pushed your naked clone off the top of a tall building, would it be:

A ) murder
B ) suicide, or
C ) merely making an obscene clone fall

Oh well, the guy who sent it to me said it sucked too!

 

[Guest]

Pushing your clone off the building is the same crime as pushing your identical twin off a building. It's another seperate person who happens to share your DNA, if not your mDNA (at this point in cloning technology). If your naked clone is a baby, that's even worse. It's just wrong, tossing a baby off a roof!
Now if someone programmed a robot to have the exact same brain function and memories and emotions as you, and you set it on fire just to watch it die, and it cries because it will never see your children again, that would be suicide.

Erin B.

 

[Guest]

poor robot

and it cries because it will never see your children again

oh wow there's a depressing image

 

[Guest]

Yeah... I think that would make a good novel. And I'll try not to be so depressing in the future, I promise!
Although, it IS just a robot, isn't it?

Erin B.

 

[84 C4]

That would be suicide, and, therefore, legal, because only attempted suicide is illegal.

 

[gripper]

If I find myself AGAIN facing (false)criminal charges;could I make my clone THAKE the fall??? :dgrin: :nyah: :nyah: :noevil:

 

[Aslan]

Am I the good clone, or the evil one?

:devil:

 

[gripper]

Gee this could turn a bit Monty Pythonesque,or at least current Brit cop procedure;"Stop I say... or I shall again say "Stop ,I say!'...But if an evil clone falls and no one takes the fall for it was the clone really evil?...and what did he say on the way down....and did anyone hearit?....What is th esound of one cone falling....and hitting....OhYeah....SPLAT!!! :dgrin: