Is it suicide if you kill your clone? And what if you look your clone right in the eye? Will you explode, or go to another dimension, or is like when you put two mirrors facing each other…you’ll get copied into infinity?
your would die, your clone would then take over your life.
This forum is reserved for Comments on Straight Dope columns. SDMB denizens, I’m hitting a blank here. Any column on human cloning that relates to this subject? If I don’t find anything by tomorrow morning, I’ll have to move this thread to another forum.
In the meantime, Jordi Pujol, I’m going to assume you’re being facetious. But just in case you’re not:
A clone is no different (from the genetic point of view) than an identical twin.
So:
a) In the USA (or Switzerland, where I’m from) it is not legally suicide to kill your twin. So I would assume that the law would consider a clone in the same fashion. I very much doubt any court case has made a decision on the subject yet. From a non-legal standpoint I would call it murder and not suicide.
b) Looking your clone in the eye would be the same as looking your twin in the eye. I have yet to see any documented cases in which gazing at your own twin can have one of the dire consequences you envision.
Jordi Pujol, as mentioned above, if you were intending on asking rhetorical questions for amusement purposes, this is not the right forum. I would suggest instead MPSIMS. But be aware that SDMB posters have a time-honored tradition of responding to rhetorical, “humourous” questions with their customary pointed wit, so if you are a person that takes offense easily, I would recommend that you avoid posting these types of subjects.
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Some Disney animators did take drugs. Acid to be specific. The animator for the movie Alice In Wonderland (1951) was inspired to write that script from acid. Also, some other animators were inspired by acid, but i’m not sure who.
No, it wouldn’t be suicide, because your clone, although looking exactly alike you, its completely different from you. No, you won’t explode if you look into each others eyes and yes, it probably is like looking into a mirror and you won’t be copied into infinite.
It doesn’t seem like there is any related Straight Dope column, so I’ll close this thread (instead of moving it, since the board is slow right now.)
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