Should dead athletes and politicians be cloned?

[wuushew]

What would you feel about Hitler the Artist, Michael Jordan II or the genetic reincarnation of Lincoln or Raygun?

Assume this happened in a country where it was legal to clone people. What would your reaction be if you met a clone on the street.

[davidinalameda]

1. only if they do my cat first

[onehandle]

5. That is going to be offered by next year...

50 Grand. They hope to get it down to 5 Grand in 5 years.

[Speck Tater]

2. Politicians are all genetically defective

Anyone who craves power badly enough to chase after it like that should probably not be trusted with power.

[wuushew]

3. Not necessarily they might be a product of nurture not nature

Bush is an asshole because he grew up in a rich and politically evil household. If he been raised fetal alcohol syndrome free in a loving secular humanist family who knows what he would have gone on to do.

[onehandle]

4. Same genetics doesn't mean same person.

This Hitler may become a successful artist or a shoe salesman. This Reagan might be a good President or even a good actor.

They'd be lookalikes, which you can find for most anyone already.

[LastRobot]

6. first of all

Understand that a clone of, say, Lincoln, would look like him and have certain similar personality traits.

However, in order to make him into the same kind of person, you'd need to
1) deprive him of a public education
2) raise him in a log cabin (i.e. no technology beyond the 1820's)
3) have him in a family with the same order of siblings he grew up with
4) have those raising him make the same mistakes and have the same successes

Lincoln's clone would probably be very different growing up in today's time and would never go far in politics due to his depression.

A clone would be a unique human being, with similar personality traits but due to different life experiences, turn out very different. They might even have completely different desires and thus, the Lincoln clone might become a private detective, solving mysteries, having adventures with the Stanton clone....

If some Nazi decided to clone Hitler and raise him in the best environment, that clone would probably be filled with the same amount of hate but would be a propped up puppet rather than a leader due to completely different experience. As much as Hitler was a product of his genetic makeup (whatever mental illness he had) he also was a product of his environment (abusive father, being gassed in WWI). His clone would probably have the same mental tendencies and the inclination to control people, but wouldn't be able to rise up on his own without the experiences that taught him he needed to mold society to his needs rather than adapt to society. His need to mold society and the society falling apart around him was the horrific combination needed to commit the attrocities of the third reich...sorta like the environment/genetic combinations needed to create Hitler...

/...too...much...sci...fi...

[indigobusiness]

7. Politicians should be cloned...

and then punished.

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[WI_DEM]

8. by all means lets clone Reagan

[yella_dawg]

9. Oh...

Like the world needs GW by the dozens.

[iconoclastic cat]

10. Yes, clone them...the Itchy and Scratchy way!

[goodhue]

11. why wait to they die? n/t