The Soul of a Clone
Let's ask some hard questions. First, I pre-suppose there will be human clones.
- Will human clones be animate or just a meat bag used for spare body parts (like death row prisoners in China)?
- Will they be animate but not sentient (soul-less, like some non-human animal)?
- Will we, their creators, be able to control whether they are animate or not? Should we?
- Will they be citizens or slaves?
There is a bio-ethics community. I'd love to see them look ahead and propose some answers (or at least thought), rather than simple things like "of course clones will have souls" or equating twins to clones and using that to explain the soul factor.
By the way, I am glad stem cells are being made from lots of things that don't require human-sacrifice (i.e., a fetus). This proves I do have a soul.
