odd question of the day...

[David Weinshenker]

"Would you do a clone of you?"

-dave w

[Evgenii Sputnik]

On 1/11/2013 11:18 AM, David Weinshenker wrote:

> "Would you do a clone of you?"

No, that's also a main reason why I would not want a child to be copying me.
It infringes my rights on my intellectual property.

I consider my DNA to be intellectual property.
Not directly but just as way to say.
(I'm follower of Stallman.)

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[Alan J Rosenthal]

David Weinshenker <daz...@earthlink.net> writes:
>"Would you do a clone of you?"

See The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

If by "clone" you are referring to reality as opposed to science fiction,
i.e. someone with the same genetic material as me but not the same age
or otherwise similar to me, then it would seem to be much like incest.

But if you mean the science fiction version where there are suddenly
two of me with the same experiences until we now start to diverge, it
would seem to be more like masturbation, like the example in The Time
Traveller's Wife, so why not?

[Peter Flynn]

On 01/12/2013 08:08 PM, Evgenii Sputnik wrote:
> On 1/11/2013 11:18 AM, David Weinshenker wrote:
>
>> "Would you do a clone of you?"
>
> No, that's also a main reason why I would not want a child to be copying
> me.
> It infringes my rights on my intellectual property.
>
> I consider my DNA to be intellectual property.

I'd delete the word "intellectual". My DNA is my property, period.

///Peter