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Cloning a dog seems benign, but I suspect that, before long, people will be cloned, too. There are certainly creepy possibilities, e.g., "The Boys from Brazil,"
by helloworld 9y ago
Cloning a dog seems benign, but I suspect that, before long, people will be cloned, too. There are certainly creepy possibilities, e.g., "The Boys from Brazil," which imagines Hitler clones, but also thought-provoking scenarios, e.g., allowing parents to clone a child who died in an accident. What a brave new world we're entering!
- oh_sigh 9y agoHitler clones would be interesting. Hitler didn't have a great early life - would he have been different if he grew up in a healthy household with two loving parents?
- DoreenMichele 9y agoYes. A recent twin incident proved that nurture plays a surprisingly large role, larger than was expected by the investigators. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35220779 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35220779
- mtgex 9y agoI'm not sure, the article doesn't mention any of that. It actually tries (weakly) to claim the opposite, with statements like "Carlos and Wilber both had very similar white mobile phones" and "We are a little bit more ego-centric, bigger flirts." Nothing about nurture playing a role though.
- DoreenMichele 9y agoIt's the first article I could find that referenced the twins in question. But researchers said they were surprised how much impact upbringing had. Unlike a lot of twins separated at birth, these were raised in very different socioeconomic circumstances. Project about them: http://drnancysegaltwins.org/bogota-twins-project-gallery http://drnancysegaltwins.org/bogota-twins-project-gallery The best reference I can currently come up with is this comment by tokenadult who has a longstanding interest in twin studies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10100109#10100644 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10100109#10100644
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- amygdyl 9y agoI had to read that as, "Carlos and Wilber both had very similar white supremacist ideologies." Karma was sacrificed for this comment..
- HillaryBriss 9y agogeneralizing that idea just a bit: what if, for each murderer who was executed, the government cloned that person first, in an effort to allow them to have a normal, crime-free life? would it count as a form of rehabilitation?
- mynameishere 9y agoThe whole point of that (awful [1]) movie was that they artificially arranged to have the clones grow up much as Hitler did. The first few scenes have hitmen killing the clones' fathers at the same age as the real Adolf. [1] Well, at least Steve Guttenberg and Lawrence Olivier got to be in the same film. It was either that or Police Academy XII.