The Dr. Seed of my Discontent

Have you heard about this Richard Seed guy? He scares the heck out of me! He plans to clone a human being. That frightens me more than weapons of mass destruction. Why? Because at least I know what a nuclear bomb can do- completely annihilate everything within a 100 square mile area. And I understand what nerve gas can do- turn hundreds of thousands of people into blathering idiots that need to be cared for by a 24 hour medical staff for the remainder of their short, miserable lives. I also understand what these biological weapons can do- wipe out the human race through a lightning-fast plague, returning the planet to the animals that once reigned. But never has a clone existed before- never has there been two exact copies of the same human being. We have no idea what may happen!

Dr. G. Richard Seed. What's with the "G" anyway? What does he think it stands for, "God"? He's not even a regular Doctor! He's a "Doctor of Physics". What the heck is that? Have you ever seen an inclined plane that needs treatment? Look at what happened to Dr. Frankenstein when he started to mess around with things that he shouldn't have. And he was a medical Doctor, right!?

How could anyone tell a pair of clones apart? Maybe they won't be able to tell themselves apart. Since they'll have exact copies of DNA, how do we know that they won't be the same person? Isn't it possible that, when we lift the arm on one, an arm will go up on the other? What if, when one looses a finger, the other's finger dies? How do we know that if a clone is in a terrible accident involving an explosion of blinding acid, the other won't forever roam the earth sightless? How do we know that these things won't happen?

People aren't like packs of Twinkies; they don't come in packs of two! Where is this Dr. Seed is going to stop? He might come up with a Sam's Club Value-Pak, with scores of duplicate people waiting on the shelf.

Even their fingerprints are going to be exactly the same, right? Think of the Havoc that will wreak for law enforcement. Eyewitness would be useless in a clone-crime. Moreover, clones will be able to frame their cloned-copies when they commit a crime. And you know they will. Wouldn't you? How will we be able to get to the actual bottom of any anything? All of civilization could wind up collapsing under the weight of the massive investigations surrounding clone-crimes! And this won't happen when we have vast armies of clones- oh no. This could happen with the first pair to be created, if they are a clever, evil pair.

Maybe they'll share intelligence. Maybe, what one sees, the other will know. What if the human soul is in out DNA? Maybe, when we clone the first person, we'll wind up with two bodies sharing the same soul! They'll have the same thoughts, the same deeds. They will be, in effect, the same human being with two physical manifestations. How do we know that all this isn't true? We won't know, for sure, until that lunatic Seed guy does his crazy experiment, because there's never been a clone before!

Our entire world may get shaken to its foundation at the birth of the first clone! Everything which we hold to be true may get up-ended! Armageddon may come forth from a test tube! Just add water! We need to stop Seed, and stop him now!

Um, heh, somebody just explained to me that identical twins are just like clones, so... never mind.