# In Defence of Dualism

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 24, 2019, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-defence-of-dualism/832962 "2019-04-24T00:18:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-defence-of-dualism/832962/23 "2019-04-24T10:17:59Z")

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> [@MrDibble](#):
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> _What_ clone problem?

On second thought, you [POST=21598501]already answered[/POST] this.

> [@Versed, the Persistence of Memory, and Assault](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/versed-the-persistence-of-memory-and-assault/832674/30):
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> A temporary but fully sentient person was made to feel torturous pain and anguish, and then erased from existence. For my and the doctors’ convenience. And I don’t consider that ethical. It wouldn’t be ethical if we created a temporary clone of me, with my memories, to suffer my pain with some sort of pain-transfer machine, and then we destroyed it, would it? Why is it ethical if the “clone” is in the same body?

~Max

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