Marcelo Gleiser’s article entitled “ Is an Identical Copy of
You, You?” discusses if you are willing to die if you know there is a copy of
you, and the author said no as she thought there is no perfect copy.
Would you let a copy of yourself live in your place?
Personally speaking, I would not let a copy of myself live
in the world. I can never image how’s the life will be if there is two of me.
But I am sure it would definitely cause many problems.
On the one hand, it would change the life of myself. For example,
the identical copy means the copy knows everything of mine, and even include
some secret. I couldn’t make sure the copy can keep the secret for me. And it
might cause even more serious problems. For example, if the one of you commit a
crime, it is difficult to figure out who did it as you two have the same fingerprints
and DNA.
On the other hand, it would also change the life of people surrounding
us. My mom would get confused which one is me, and how could she get alone with
the copy. And I don’t want to see that my girlfriend date with other people
even if it is the copy of me.
What’s more, just as some movies show that copies may want
to kill the original one, so that he can be the unique one in the world. So
there are a lot of ethical and moral problems of the copy of human. Such as the
relation between the copy and the original one, and dose the copy one should
have the same right as the original one is worth debating.
You pointed out a very good point--that is the other you may commit crime and the innocent one might be put into jail.
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Wow. I found we have two different opinions concerning the relationship of the copy and original person. I think the copy cannot copy your memory and experience because brain cells grown up with your life. The copy only can got the DNA information from you and have identical body and face with you.
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