• insurgentrat [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.net
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      Genes contribute to personality and appearance. If you just sort of liked a dog, had absolutely no concept of the good you can use money for, didn’t actually like dogs (because you could adopt one of the many dogs murdered each day for want of care), and didn’t see an attempt to copy someone as if individuals are fungible as disrespectful then I suppose it makes some sort of sense.

      To many humans other animals are just things after all.

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        Just get another dog it’s a different dog stop being freaks omfg.

        This whole thing viscerally upsets me on a level I find sort of hard to process, i dislike it at a spiritual level, I find it fundamentally wrong. It’s a family member. It’s like equally freaky to me if you did this to your mother or your siblings, they wouldn’t be the same people, stop, no, ew.

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          Gonna clone myself and give them a headstart on the whole trans thing 🤔

          But yeah nah seeing a clone of me running around would probably break my brain

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          tbh I personally don’t find this more revolting than eating non human animals. Which is to say I think it’s disgusting and betrays a complete and utter selfish absorption with your own alledged superiority and a fundamentally objectifying view of other beings.

          But I am not really surprised that someone who would have somebody killed and butchered for their pleasure would see this as reasonable. It’s certainly less violent ╮(︶▽︶)╭

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    Interesting. A lot of uncaring rich people probably don’t care that the dogs personality would be completely different or find it creepy.

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    Ngl, I have always had an idea of using pet cloning for dystopian storytelling

    1.Write a billionaire character that views their children/pets as status symbols to flaunt their wealth

    2.Introduce the family dog “Pheonix” who has died and been cloned 6 times

    3.Write about how business associates that infrequently visit the house every 5-7 years find it quirky and funny when they finally notice

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      There’s a neat book called Elemental Council (TW: WH40K) where one of the main characters is dealing with a similar issue.

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      they’re the 6th clone of a war hero. Their body is breaking down, and they need to be constantly shot up with stimulants to function. But, the (tau) empire needs their famous soldier to help with the home front.

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      I feel like there’s a story (movie or TV show) I recall where someone (the villain possibly?) brings back a dead loved one every time they die, and they ask even this time to not be brought back, but I think the villain brought them back anyway? Or maybe didn’t? I can’t recall.

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        I loved my chosen. How then to face the day when she left me? So I took from her body a single cell, perhaps to love her again.

        • Pravin Lal, Time of Bereavement

        There was a thing in Pantheon

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        where a character had come to genuinely love her fiance, but knowing that the version of her that would be brought back to life wouldn’t, demanded to never be brought back.

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      Is the recent season of The Rehearsal, Nathan fielder attempted to recreate the personality of a cloned dog by simulating formative life events as a bit.