You did not take your cloning theory far enough. You stopped while your arguments supported your theories. However, for the sake of clarity, you did not proceed on into darkness.
Let's not stop with Kennedy and Roosevelt, let's give the other side a chance. How nice it would have been for Hitler's friends and supporters to be able to bring his clone to life to lead yet another million Jews to their graves two decades into the "new" centruy.
Or, if you prefer to "control" such happenings, such unplanned "creations," we will need to be foresighted enough to establish a board that can rule which clones are worthy of being "born" and which are better left quick-frozen forever, like Hitler's.
Oh, and we can forget costly research into more starwars programs; we won't need them. We can accomplish the same results at a much lower cost if we are willing to wait 20 years for an elite cloned army to rise up from the cells of our top fighters. This army could annihilate all the malnourished, third world nations and leave the world for people (intellectuals mostly wouln't you think?) and their "more worthy" clones to enjoy.
We should inject a small amount of reality at this point to ponder for a moment a worthwhile theory: Heredity, Environment or Will...which makes the man? (That was a question my grandmother had to write a paper on many years ago. Wish I could find it.)
Go back to your example of the young woman who decides she is such a worthwhile addition to humanity, and being a product of the "self" generation decides, needing no one - a husband, nor a significant lover, that she will just bring her clone to life. Of course, that clone's life will dovetail with hers exactly because the clone will be her. But......will it?
The clone will be raised by her not her mother, not her father (who hopefully, were two divergent personalities). The clone will attend different schools, have different playmates, different experiences. The clone will be buffeted by a different environment, so it is probable that different parts of the clone's personality will be highlighted than those of the woman as she grew. So it is entirely conceivable that the woman will not end up with another self but an other self. And just maybe, the woman won't like having to share her "self" with others.
Identical twins may be identical, clones may be identical - replicas, duplicates...but, can we be so very sure that the soul, the will is identical? As happened at the Tower of Babel, maybe an entity higher than ourselves, realized at one point long ago that sameness in not necessarily wonderful. Maybe at that point, He decided we had more to offer each other in our diversity than in our sameness. Maybe He decided at creation, rather than spit us out like so many carbon copies that He would give us each a little stardust of His likeness to develop into myriads of Himself much like snowflakes or the raindrops in the sun creating a rainbow.
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