Very good question which several books worth of answers can be printed. The general idea is that things would seem normal at first, but decades of living with that technology would render death and murder meaningless. The Overton window would shift so far left that killing someone as punishment for their speech would be seen as reasonable since they can always be “brought back to life” and probably deserved it anyway. Nobody would be able to tell the difference between an original and a remake, and eventually new diseases would appear due to unforeseen consequences: cancers, autoimmune diseases, shorter lifespans, etc.
TL;DR The bad would most likely outweigh the good. I’d cash in on it before that, though, by splicing the human genome with cats to create the perfect army of catgirl assassins that fulfil my every desire. https://i.imgur.com/6y0UXQ6.jpg
This is pure science fiction. Clone technology =/= memory and personality imprinting technology.
I didn’t say it would be memory or personality imprinting. If you were cloned, your clone would be a baby and grow up to, most likely, be completely different from you.
Perhaps that could be used as an excuse to kill someone and give their clone a second chance not to make the controlling political party angry.
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