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>If I were raised by my parent-clone I would have matured faster and been more skilled at playing baby-roulette with a natural child. This is leaning heavily o
by daenz 4y ago
>If I were raised by my parent-clone I would have matured faster and been more skilled at playing baby-roulette with a natural child.
This is leaning heavily on the assumption that your personality is primarily a product of your genetics, and not of your life experiences. Outside of relating on physiology, what makes you think you would understand their reactions to unique life experiences at such a young age?
Speaking as someone who had a dramatic personality shift from early trauma, I don't think that what you hypothesize is true.
- sometimeshuman 4y ago"This is leaning heavily on the assumption that your personality is primarily a product of your genetics" Not really. If you allow that it is even 1% due to genetics, that better parenting compounds over generations. And there is a lot of evidence that it is much more than 1%. I too experienced numerous traumatic events by the time I was 12 and was then prone towards neuroticism for decades after. I still submit I'd be a much better parent to a clone than someone who has half my dna.
- daenz 4y agoIt sounds like you're saying you'd consciously be a better parent to a clone because you know it is a clone.
- dymk 4y agoIt sounds like they're saying that they would end up being a better parent because it's a clone, not because they know it's a clone.
- daenz 4y agoI'm not trying to put them on trial but... The OP has no way of knowing if they would be a better parent, but yet they still very strongly think that they would be a better parent to a child that has 100% similar dna than 50% similar dna. How can you know this unless you are biased towards the idea of a clone? "I want a clone, more than anything" suggests there is bias.
- rhacker 4y agoActually the dna would still be more than 99.9% the same even with another parent.