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SurfinMindWaves ago

I think they only resort to cloning for specific bloodlines. Pumping babies into slaves to make more slaves is much easier and less expensive to do the old fashioned way.

theooeht ago

You could well be right. But what they're looking for is still a mystery. What in the genetic markers is a marker for having no soul?

And it stands to reason if your genetic make-up does not include a soul, that a clone would not have one either.

But even with the babies, they are careful as to who they choose.

SurfinMindWaves ago

I suppose the word "soul" has different meanings to different people. I don't believe you can have anything that is alive that doesn't have a soul. Just because people do evil things doesn't mean they don't have a soul, they're just evil. And even that determination is in the eye of the beholder.

theooeht ago

No doubt, but there is such a thing. In esoteric books and teachings, it's mentioned ... including the concept of being born without a soul. I guess it would most closely align with what science has learned about psychopaths. They are natural-born killers with no capacity for empathy. Sociopaths do horrendous crimes also, but they are made that way through trauma-induced shutdown of compassion, etc. I think maybe what you're getting at is that only God can distinguish what is going on inside a killer's heart or mind because sometimes a human being will commit egregious crimes ... a whole series of them ... and somewhere along the line, their conscience kicks in. The sense of regret and the realization that whoever that was was not them. It's what it means in Christianity for no sin to be too great not to be forgiven. But ''we'' have no way of telling of a person saying they regret their actions is being truthful. God is the only Supreme Being that can make such a determination. I would tend to agree with that ... that some people do change, but ....

There are also monsters.