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> clone your dog when it passes away I love how the darkest dystopian outcomes for humanity are kinda just fine to try out on our pets. Here, Fido Ten, good b

• atlasunshrugged 5y ago
  Not sure why it's dystopian necessarily. I'd be interested in cloning myself if it was possible/legal/not cost prohibitive. I'm already signed up for a cryonics facility. But I have loved all of my dogs and would seriously think about cloning them if I had the money even to get an imperfect copy when they passed away.
  • pjerem 5y ago
    If you loved all of your dogs, maybe you would have miss something if you kept cloning the first one ad vitam. Would you have preferred your second dog to be an imperfect copy of the first ?
    • samatman 5y ago
      "Imperfect" is unnecessarily moralistic here. A clone is nothing more, and nothing less, than a time-shifted identical twin. I probably wouldn't clone my dog for that reason: it's not "getting my dog back" it's having his identical twin. But I grant that identical twins are very similar to one another, so if you like your dog's look and personality, the clone would probably be a lot like his twin. So I don't judge people who would rather do that than find a new dog; why not? I do think it would be weird to give the clone the same name though. That said, a few pet owners give all of their dogs or cats the same name. Just because I don't understand it doesn't make it bad.
      • pjerem 5y ago
        > "Imperfect" is unnecessarily moralistic here. I really not intended to be moralistic, i was just reusing your wording. Sorry