From: Harry S. Hawk (habs@panix.com)
Date: Wed Feb 26 1997 - 13:46:25 MST
> feel a bit of this kind of altruism and protective instinct, seeing your own
> DNA, born ( I assume a clone must have surrogate mothering- imagine if you
> were it's mother, or your mate had carried it to term) and raised?
> Would we take pride, watching it growing up and thriving?
Sure its a copy but a bad one..
or
It look like me but it NOT....
If I had cancer and I wasn't sure ALcor et al will work.. it might
want to "buy" a clone and leave him a piece of my estate...
but if I wanted to leave a legacy I, PERSONALLY, speaking would rather
leave money to soeone with the same MEME's rather than the same
GENE's.
e.g., rather leave money to a young and like minded Extropian than a
newborn clone (or even adult clone) who might not see eye to eye,
might be highly competitive w/ me or resentful of me, etc.
-- Harry S. Hawk habs@panix.com "Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority," [said] Justice John Paul Stevens
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