{"id":9391,"date":"2006-07-17T14:39:05","date_gmt":"2006-07-17T21:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/07\/17\/clones-are-or-would-be-people-too.html"},"modified":"2006-07-17T14:39:05","modified_gmt":"2006-07-17T21:39:05","slug":"clones_are_or_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/17\/clones_are_or_w.html","title":{"rendered":"Clones are (or would be) people, too"},"content":{"rendered":"

File this under the “duh” heading, as far as I’m concerned: human clones would probably “feel individuality”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A cloned human would probably consider themselves to be an individual, a study suggests.Scientists drew their conclusions after interviewing identical twins about their experiences of sharing exactly the same genes with somebody else.<\/p>\n

The team said the twins believed their genes played a limited role in shaping their identity.The UK\/Austrian research will shortly be published in the journal of Social Science and Medicine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Maybe because I’ve been immersed in science fiction for multiple decades, but the question even crossed my mind.  Of course they would.<\/p>\n

Now, would they have a soul?<\/em>  {ducks}<\/p>\n

I joke, but no doubt someone will raise the question.  More importantly, will folks raise the issue of whether human clones, at such time as they actually occur, share human rights and privileges?  Would they be citizens of the nations they were born in?<\/p>\n

Again, the answers seem pretty self-evident to me, but I’ll betcha some folks will challenge them.  What will be interesting will be to see what sort of ideological line-up there will be on some of these issues.  Will social conservatives, for example, who tout the sanctity of human life, especially the unborn and embryos, be the most or least protective of clones, born or unborn?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

File this under the “duh” heading, as far as I’m concerned: human clones would probably “feel individuality”: A cloned human would probably consider themselves to be an individual, a study suggests.Scientists…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129175,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/18\/movie-review-attack-of-the-clones-2002.html","url_meta":{"origin":9391,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: "Attack of the Clones" (2002)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-Dec-15 1:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The rewatch continues!This one ekes out 2 stars out of 5 largely because (a) lots of eye candy and (b) the Obi-Wan and Jango Fett parts are pretty fun. 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