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In media, there are sometimes stories where a person is cloned/duplicated (usually with identical memories) and the clone is murderous towards the original. Usually it's something like "I knew there could be only one of us, and you would do the same". Sometimes, they're able to work things out and can share a single public identity, or duplication gives one copy a chance to do go off and live a new life that they always wanted.

How would you and your duplicate get along? Assume you are living like you do today, in a society where duplication is unheard of and has no legal precedent.

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[โ€“] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think I'd kill me. I think it would be cool for one of us to commit a brazen crime in broad daylight whilst also having a rock-solid alibi. I couldn't have killed that person; I was giving a speech to 100 people at the time who can all testify for me. Give detectives etc a real head-scratcher when all the evidence points towards me being the culprit but I was also undeniably somewhere else.

I'm picturing me and my duplicate having a fight that devolved into us actually trying to kill each other over this because honestly, I'd rather shoot a man.....no scratch that, I'd rather BE shot than give a speech in front of a significant number of people.

[โ€“] python@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We'd get along fine, but feeding two people on one salary will definitely be annoying (my job has a non-competition clause where I can't pick up a second job in the same field), and getting enough adhd meds for the both of us will be impossible due to strict regulations here.

One of us still could bring value to the household by being the designated bangmaid though

[โ€“] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you job barely pays enough to feed you AND and you have a noncompete?

There is almost no way that's enforceable.

[โ€“] python@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Nono, it feeds me comfortably, I'm just really into saving up since I want to own an apartment one day and I'd definitely be annoyed at having to feed an extra person with no prior notice.

Probably spend the first couple of days fucking and then figure out what happens next after that.

[โ€“] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nah, We would become buddies. We would pretend to be twins in public. We'd split the work, I'd go one week and he'd go the other. We'd play Soulcalibur and Tekken and since we'd both be equally bad it wouldn't be frustrating.

[โ€“] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It would be hard to alternate work if its a professional role. You would have to do like update sessions and it would make more work for both of you relative to pay.

[โ€“] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or work together and do the job in half the time and enjoy the rest

I was thinking that. If it was remote during meetings you could alternate being face or listening lying on a couch.

[โ€“] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Too many people with twin fetishism to bother with murder.

[โ€“] eldavi@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i've learned recently that there's a surprisingly large number of people that find me attractive despite my size and age; i would 100% create an only fans page with my duplicate to capitalize on this fact. lol

[โ€“] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Awww that's nice

You could do it half way right now

Maybe learn greenscreening

[โ€“] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

they somehow find me "charming" so i would have to record myself at least twice, with each time recording one half of a conversation; not that, that's a bad thing since some small part of me has been looking for a new hobby and video editing might prove to be as lucrative as my last passionate hobby with linux programming. lol