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Technically, it can be said, that all forms of life are buildt upon the ending of other, smaller lives.
Oh sure, you could go vegetarian and not eat meat, but plants are technically alive too! Even by-products like cheese or the most artificial of foodstuffs require some enzyme or bacteria to give up their tiny lives. How many micro-organisms does one crush underfoot with every step or every time you touch anything or breath in the air littered with a haze of micro-organisms mixed into the sludgy stew of everyday Life?
Life forces funnel upwards, pooling & collecting into gradually more complex, more intelligent life forms that know enough to keep themselves safer and alive for longer.
You are the gathering enmeshment of countless hundreds upon thousands of lives, nay souls, collected together into a form that bends the will of reality itself to its whims. You are the way you are because of how the world fell into place to form a hole for you to fit; a universe in living, biological form.
Act like it.
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Technically, cloned & regrown cells that contain the same DNA are still separate organisms. Like bone meal in cattle feed or rotted plant material in compost. ….none of those analogies sounds flattering.
And, aye, a cycle! A redistribution of resource that reuses & refreshes the same base material! Like the water cycle!
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Objection! Cloned cells are no closer to being distinct organisms than the cells making up your body are! If you're eating distinct organisms when you're eating meat cloned from yourself, then distinct organisms are doing the eating as well since it's the cells of your body that are doing the digesting as opposed to some misty separate notion of 'you'. If you're eating distinct organisms when you're eating meat cloned from yourself, then you're eating distinct organisms constantly as the lining of your stomach is slowly eaten away at by the hydrochloric acid it contains. The very notion of distinct organisms breaks down when it comes to your cells since they're somehow both distinct organisms and a single unified organism at the same time.
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But what about the myriad plethora of disparate bits of minutia that coalesce to make you the working ecosystem that you are?...given that you're a human fleshsack.
I'm taking Dolly for example. Just because the full structure is identical doesn't mean the personality or the way the life of that clone effects it doesn't cause it to become radically different. Like split timelines. If I ripped my own heart out, cloned it and put the original back the second would not be the original, even if it was.
As if a tracing of an art.
They are distinct in the sense that they were created for a sole other purpose and haven't been serving the purpose that the original is currently undergoing. Age, after all, would play a part even if the detriments of age wear were also copied.
Those cells in the petri dish may be a product of your cells, but they're not the ones you're currently using.
You don't hold pride over your poo, do you? … okay, bad example. I do that.
...maybe its a bit late currently to be trying to sound intelligent.
