Imagine
watching yourself play with your kids in the dirt from your
cozy home office, while conferencing with the offshore Indian
team. Well that may be your clone who is playing with your
kids, but does that make real sense to watch oneself without
a mirror. Or am I the actual clone? Sounds familiar? May
be yes after watching all those sci-fi Hollywood chart busters,
toying with the unconventionally controversial idea of cloning.
Though very interesting it may not be a possibility
at least in the near future to create a human being or an
animal of the same size as his cellular parent like how
some of the movies show. While technology may be a limiting
factor our imagination need not. If such cloning is possible,
I would like to have a clone of myself. It would be interesting
to see if he would have the same tastes, likes and dislikes
as me. How nice would it be to know that there is one more
person who consistently skips his shower every third Sunday
of a month. At least I wont feel like the odd man out for
the rest of my life.
People protesting against cloning often take
the anecdote of Hitler. What if Hitler was cloned and every
country had one of his clones? Well, I bet that would not
be any worse a threat to the world than all my clones still
driving the ailing circa 1960 Lambretta spitting enough
smoke to annihilate another Nagasaki. Imagine the state
of the citizens of this world, who would have to deal with
not just one, but a number of my clones who would not hesitate
a minute to whine about the poor state of affairs ranging
from the global economy to the last pothole that my vehicle
met.
I would especially pity all my wonder years
school teachers toiling all the day to keep all my clones
from bothering them. I remember shattering all my school
windows playing ball with my friends that poor clones of
mine would not have the same opportunities I had - sure
not everyone gets equal share of joy in this world. It is
more painful to imagine all my clones breaking those girls'
hearts in college. The whole world will become such a miserable
place to live.
All said, humanity would still have one thing
to gain from my cloning - never again to allow anybody to
experiment something like cloning. At the worst, stop someone
like me getting cloned!
Happy Living!
