If you could clone yourself and have your clone work as your slave, would you do it?

No because he'd make me his slave

Only if I was a sex worker?

How?

You could create ten clones of yourself and live your dream life. Think!

Well, let's see- by the time the clone reaches adulthood, and is trained & educated with what I know, I'll be nearing retirement age. I wouldn't be working anyway.

What, OP, did you believe a fully adult clone simply pops out of a mold, educated and ready to go?

Also- who's going to pay for the cloning costs, and the costs of raising said clone to adulthood?

The clone would be you genetically, but you would not share his mind and experiences, and he wouldn't share yours. He would still be his own being, not really much different than your child. Do you feel it's okay to enslave a child, or any other human being?

Do you think a clone would have no consciousness?

All of that is a red herring to the question at hand.

If you could clone yourself and have your clone work as your slave, would you do it?

I'm assuming that your questions are not a problem in this thread. This thread is a mental experiment for the purposes of a moral discussion. It's not a scientifitic thread.

According to my research, human clones can be made to grow rapidly.

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Those issues were explored in the film The Island.


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There is no way to answer the issues you're raising without seeing how actual human clones turn out in the real world.

If my clone wanted to do my job for me, I would be more than happy to let him do it. I probably couldn't enslave my own clone if it was causing him distress. However, if it was just a mindess animal that did whatever I told it to do, that may be different.

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Watch Rick and Morty.

Party pooper.

That poster debunked nothing. This is all woo, but the rabbit hole goes deep.


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Wrong. Your clone is NOT you, it is a separate person with separate consciousness and separate free will. Enslaving a clone is just as evil as enslaving any other person, because they'd have their own will.

That's about as dumb as enslaving an identical twin because their DNA is identical to yours.

Besides, your clone slave will probably rebel against you, because you can't control his free will by having the same DNA lol.

I'd clone a hot and sweet voluptuous bitch, and put her to work instead.

Your clone is you on a physical level. That much is certain.

The rest of what you wrote above is speculation. For example, human clones may not even be able to move for all we know. We have to see one in the real world before we know anything like your speculation above.

I'd have him go do my job every day.

No, a clone is not you. A clone is simply someone with identical DNA to you. A clone is basically the same idea as identical twins. Do you think an identical twin would be you too? Of course not, they have their own mind and free will.

And it's extremely obvious that a proper human clone would be able to move and do anything else that you could. As I said, a clone is nothing more than a person with identical DNA to you, so they could do whatever you could do.

Now you're talking about something that's no different than any other exoloitation without any doubt. There's no argument for justifying that at all.

OF course not.
Im actually against the suffering of any conscious entity, even animals, not down to insects yet until there's scientific proof that the lights are on for them. But yea, no.

If you create a clone, the clone isn't telepathically linked to you lol. He has different thoughts and actions. If you do something, he doesn't automatically copy it. He's not the same person, he just has the same genetics, and then same body design.

I don't think you understand what clones actually are...

I stopped reading right there because you just lost all credibility. Clones are inorganic by definition, they are not organic like identical twins. Identical twins come out of a mother's womb the way mother nature intended. Clones come out of a laboratory.

What are you talking about?

That's all theoretical. We don't know how human clones would turn out as far as I know. Can you prove any of that?

You have no idea what you're talking about. A clone is not inorganic. The word inorganic means "not made of biological tissue", like a robot.

A clone is made from a fertilized cell that multiplies until it forms into a baby, JUST LIKE A REGULAR HUMAN. The only difference is that a clone is conceived using an artificial process, isntead of by sexual intercourse.

A clone is made of organic cells, the exact same type of cells as a you are made from..

Maybe you're thinking of robots and not clones? Robots are inorganic, clones aren't.

In fact, actual cloning is done by creating the clone cell and then implanting it into someone's womb, similar to artificial insemination.

So clones DO come out of a womb, the only difference is how they are conceived.

You're assuming that there would be suffering. I would be against that too. It's possible that human clones would just be robots in human bodies.

You have no idea what clones actually are. Clones are not robots, they are humans with the same DNA as someone else. They think and feel just like you do.

NEVER!

I'd make a terrible slave

I made a mistake by using the word inorganic because I thought inorganic was the antonym of the following definition of organic:

"Characterized by gradual or natural development."
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It's not.

"The only difference is that a clone is conceived using an artificial process, isntead of by sexual intercourse."

I see that as being two different worlds, and you don't think it's an important difference. There's nothing more to say for me.

I see identical twins as being two different people while a clone of one those twins would be a copy of the one being cloned. Again, it's two different worlds, and only actual human clones could prove who is right.

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