Re: Replicant EThics and the Free Market
Steve Edwards (SAlanEd@concentric.net)
Tue, 25 Feb 1997 01:04:30 -0600
At 06:36 PM 2/24/97 -0800, you wrote:
>On Feb 24, 8:14pm, RavnStCrow@aol.com wrote:
>
>} Umm.... just curious, you say your clone will not have a brain, and it is an
>} exact replica of you....
>
>Genetic replica. Brain stem development should be suppressable. No
>brain, no person. Actually letting the body grow under total sensory
>deprivation would probably also prevent any mental development --
>important experiment -- but people would probably be happier if the
>brain was obviously gone. Actually people won't be happy at all, but
>convincing them would be easier with physical removal or suppressing.
>
>Merry part,
> -xx- Damien R. Sullivan X-) <*> http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix
Actually, anencephalic babies are occasionally born, even now. Fortunately,
they die within a few days. Apparently brains are necessary for further
development.
Steve Edwards
SAlanEd@concentric.net, SAlanEd@aol.com,
http://users.aol.com/salaned/cyberplace.html
"Life, he himself said once, (his biografiend, in fact, kills him verysoon,
if yet not, after) is a wake, livit or krikit, and on the bunk of our
breadwinning, lies the cropse of our seedfather..."