My teenage certainty about clone rights dissolved into adult ambiguity

I mean, I used to argue that clones were just copies, but now I'm not so sure. Idk, maybe it's just me, but experiencing loss made their potential for unique pain real.

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christopher18014h ago

Watching Simon's dog example hits hard because it's not about abstract biology. Honestly, seeing an animal's unique personality fade through illness, that specific whimper or the way they'd nudge an empty food bowl, makes you realize sentience is in the details. Applying that to a clone, you'd have to ignore a mountain of daily evidence - their reactions, their learned fears, their accumulated memories - to still call them just a copy. Their pain wouldn't be a theoretical duplicate, it would be a real, documented history of suffering you'd have witnessed firsthand. That shift from debating origins to literally watching it happen changes everything.

matthewh1517h ago

Wait, you actually thought clones were just copies? That’s a wild starting point. It ignores all the lived experience they’d have. No wonder loss shifted your view on their pain.

simon_hart17h ago

My dog passing last year is what finally made it click for me. That kind of personal loss builds a deeper empathy you just can't force.

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