Moral/legal question

[kellinator]

This morning Will and I were discussing cloning ourselves (with references to the Calvin and Hobbes storyline where Calvin clones himself and mayhem ensues) and I made the comment, which got a big laugh from Will, that "If I had eight of me running around I think I'd probably kill 'em."

Now I'm wondering, would that be murder or suicide?

Comments

[hooper-x.livejournal.com]

more importantly, if you had sex with one of them, would it be masturbation or rape?

-HX

[es.livejournal.com]

Well now. Are they independent clones, or are you controlling them somehow? If they're independent, it's murder. :) If they're controlled and/or simply kept for body parts if you need them, then why put the brain in at all? Just keep them tucked away in a closet somewhere, safe and sound little vegetables, no mayhem.

- ES

[podling]

There was a book that had that as part of the premise. "Spares" it was called... by Michael Marshall Smith.

[misanthropist.livejournal.com]

Definitely murder. Sorry.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

But it seems to me that if I'm going to have clones, there should definitely be mayhem. This is probably because I watched too much television in my formative years...

[kmn-rdr-caoimhe.livejournal.com]

I would have to agree. But that doesn't mean anyone has to know...hell, you could use one of the bodies to fake your own death!