Gotta Love The Two of Me!

It would be great fun to create a clone of myself. He'd run around the house, doing dishes, the laundry, cleaning stuff and cooking me food. And when he misbehaves, I can harvest an organ from him to help some poor shmuck who lost a kidney or needs a liver. But there would be a problem:

He'd probably escape to down town and pick up some hot chicks while I'm stuck at home. While he's having a grand old time being smooth and getting a few phone numbers, I'll be at home updating this blog. But I suppose if he did, I could kill him. And his girlfriend wouldn't know the difference, so I could easily step in.

Actually that sounds like a plan. I think I'm going to go do that . . .

But no. Cloning is one of those disturbing things people are striving to achieve. I don't know if I'd want a few dozen of me running around. It would be utter mass confusion (the more I talk, the more I like cloning, mass confusion, sounds like fun!) What if my clone gets arrested? The police lock him up. The next day, they find me and lock me up. Then they find another, and lock him up. And he argues it was me and I argue it was the first clone who argues that it was the other clone. What then? Do we all get the death penalty? Do we all go free? Can we prove which of us it really was? Cloning leads to confused situations.

And what of the clone himself? Is he human or can we harvest his organs? Will he have the same exact mind as his original? What will his impact be on society? Can a human be developed successfully in a Brave New World? Being bred in a factory leads to the destruction of family life, life which is being proven to be so vital for the psychological and physical welfare of the child. Cloning conjures up frightening images of "people factories." I can imagine some mad man running about creating an army of clones. Imagine Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad with nukes and an army of clones. Not even America would stop him. Would Ahmedinejad's clones have rights? Well, if they are human, they do deserve rights. But are they? Aren't they just a photocopy of some poor soul who was suckered into a laboratory? They're experiments! We can mess with them and then throw them into the trash like an unborn fetus! And then imagine, the year 3065 when the clones demand civil rights and revolt against governments. What a catastrophe we will have put ourselves in then!

There is something inherently immoral with the cloning process. It is a matter that should never be brought about.

In other news, this Ahmedinejad is really creepy. Says he wants to destroy Israel and "believes that the Islamic revolution's raison d'etre is to prepare the way for messianic redemption, which in his eschatology is preceded by worldwide upheaval and chaos. How better to light the fuse for eternal bliss than with a nuclear flame? Depending on your own beliefs Ahmedinejad is either mystical or deranged." -Time magasine, April 3,2006.

Ahmedinejad's looking for nukes. And in my opinion, he is both mystical and deranged and a man who is both isn't afraid of suicidal moves such as a nuclear attack. The way the world is now World War 3 would start in the Middle East. Ahmedinejad's just the personality who'd start it. Let me name someone else who was mystical and deranged.

Adolph Hitler.

So why are we so worried about Iraq and Saddam? This guy is scarier. But I still say, better leave him alone and hope he does nothing foolish rather than provoke him in an invasion.

Oscar Madison: Where are you going?
Felix Ungar: To the john.
Oscar Madison: Alone?
Felix Ungar: I always go alone. Why?
Oscar Madison: No reason. You going to be in there long?
Felix Ungar: As long as it takes. -The Odd Couple

J Kuhl Signing Off