I came here to make a really bad TMNT joke, but the quality of the article was just too high to spoil it thusly. Well played, Mr. Bennington-Castro.

Yeah, I just hope that we can find some actual good within this new sci-fi spectacle.

You have a WOMAN'S legs, your majesty! =)

*crosses fingers, closes eyes* Please be sci-fi, please be sci-fi, please be sci-fi...

Do you think I could sue for custody, if, say, I felt the clone was being mistreated somehow? As opposed to a more voluntary adoption, I mean.

Would I (or my parents) have a legal option to claim rights, if we so chose? So in the non-consent case, if I were to later find out about it, could I exercise any rights over my stolen genetic twin (assuming I hadn't signed them away somehow, of course)?

The first one I remember my family having was this one:

Right, I get that, but talking about it on a science-fiction blog and talking about it in the public arena are two very different things.

I found the Coldfire books a few years ago, buried in a box of books my mom had left in the basement.

I would tend to agree with you, but the fact that a sperm donor's responsibility has been legally debated gives us a plain view that this is a very complicated question.

Well, technically speaking, isn't my clone my (delayed) twin brother? Wouldn't that make my parents his parents, legally speaking?

What if someone else clones you without your consent?

Excellent question. Taking it one step further:

That's exactly what I mean. Even the technology we have and use now is confusing as hell when it comes to responsibility for the output. Cloning just adds another whole layer of mess to it.

I don't think we're going to know unless we do it.

And, by extension, do the clone's parents = the progenitor's parents, regardless of who does the gestation? By cloning myself, I am essentially giving my parents another child.

It's a bit in-depth, but this article/blog post (http://fallingawkwardly.wordpress.com/2010/08/29/the…) touches on some interesting things. After reading it and some pondering, I had a thought: Tamriel might be the only world where the lore actually supports thousands of 'single heroes'. It's just that this time, they…

I assume because stereotypes can cloud the mind, much like the Jedi mind trick.

Personally, I think the Stanford Prison Experiment is all the evidence we need about how evil "normal" people can become under the right conditions.

Bender likes the way you think.