Merdaneth
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Posted - 2013.06.17 22:08:00 -
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Samira Kernher wrote:Afterall, it is certainly possible to have two clones of the same person at the same time, the only thing preventing this is law. How can one believe the soul transfers from the original to the clone, when the only thing preventing hundreds of simultaneous clones of the same person is bureaucratic policy?
This is obvious nonsense. Capsuleers do everything forbidden by God and men. They murder, betray, smuggle and steal as it suits them. But suddenly all capsuleers are holier than thou when the Empires ask them not to make two or more clones of themselves? Do you believe that yourself, or have you been ordered to repeat that?
I challenge you to show me, among the myriads of law-breaking capsuleers, one capsuleer that has two or more simultaneous clones. I'll ask some Sansha loyalists to perform this feat, obviously they are not held back by some Empire-bound 'bureaucratic rule', or are they?
Additionally, if they could, anyone with access to the new cloning technology for ground troops would be smart to make a hundred copies of their best warriors? Why would the Caldari State, who breed test tube children by the thousands, not mass produce their finest soldiers? Why would the Elders of the Minmatar send fleets of ships to attack Concord, but still abide by their cloning rules? That simply doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
The advantages of making multiple life copies are so great it is abundantly clear that people are not cloning themselves or others en-masse because *they cannot do it*. And why can't they do it? Because the clones lack one thing, a thing divinely made thing that cannot be copied: a soul. Without a soul, a clone is akin to s a rock: inert matter without volition.
People do not turn into rocks as soon as they activate their first clone is activated, they retain their moral and spiritual fibre because their soul follows them to its new host.
The very argument you make for the divine nature of the soul, as a thing that cannot be man-made, is a strong argument for the reality that no one is making multiple copies of individuals despite all the advantages and temptations.
Pfah, capsuleers not doing things because the bureaucracy tells them not to.... |