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Because he has continued to show any lack of remorse. Let's look even at this story. He did not say that he wanted to clone her to try to reverse the terrible t
by hristov 16y ago
Because he has continued to show any lack of remorse. Let's look even at this story. He did not say that he wanted to clone her to try to reverse the terrible thing that he did (i.e., murdering her). Or to try to give her life back that he took away. He said he wanted to give her the happy childhood that she missed.
I am not sure whether Nina had an unhappy childhood, but if she did that was clearly through no fault of Reiser's because he met her when she was an adult. So even in this he cannot bring himself to admit that he did something wrong.
- pjscott 16y agoThe way you put that is kind of creepy. A clone of someone is a completely different person, who just happens to share DNA. To think of a clone as "Nina, reincarnated" or some such thing is not just wrong; it's potentially harmful to the emotional welfare of the clone in question. Cloning someone can not reverse murdering them. Cloning someone can not give someone back any life they may have lost. Cloning someone can not give them a happy childhood. I know this is academic now, but if (when?) there are human clones walking around, this kind of thinking is going to be a problem.
- omarchowdhury 16y agoI think what you fail to see here is that the "creepiness" is built in to Reiser's ideology.
- starpilot 16y agoI'm going to say something sounding terribly naive: It's almost as if Reiser thinks humans are essentially genetic code that can be duplicated to produce exact copies. It's like he's objectified people as physiological analogs of his own work.
- jonhendry 16y agoHe wants to make a symlink to Nina.