Poll: Opposite gender (sex) clone - Would you?

[Housebroken Lunatic]

I'd kill it.

Sure, it might possess a dirty imagination of equal grade to my own, as well as being a rather unselfish lover. But it would also possess the flawless methods of argumentation and discussion that I do, meaning that it would be impossible for me to win any debates, and also there's that issue with not being completely unique anymore.

Still it would be one vicious fighter if it has to fend for it's own life. It would use every dirty trick in the book and would probably start swinging a knife at me too. So it would be a challenge, but a necessary one.

 

[Treblaine]

An opposite gender clone of yourself... that's basically a brother or sister. In fact my sister used to get teased because she looked like just a female version of me.

So fuck no. I'd "get to the bottom of what happened" but ultimately I'd treat the clone as family, what with having same genes and all.

Remember a clone is just a copy of the genes (in this case imperfect as the 45th and 46th (Y-chrom) chromosomes have been fiddled with) and NOT copy of personality. However, a complete "copy" via some super-advanced physics to literally copy every atom and electrical impulse in my body... that is something else.

 

[wordsmith]

I'd kill it.

Sure, it might possess a dirty imagination of equal grade to my own, as well as being a rather unselfish lover. But it would also possess the flawless methods of argumentation and discussion that I do, meaning that it would be impossible for me to win any debates, and also there's that issue with not being completely unique anymore.

Still it would be one vicious fighter if it has to fend for it's own life. It would use every dirty trick in the book and would probably start swinging a knife at me too. So it would be a challenge, but a necessary one.

There is a theory which applies to this actually- if your first thought upon seeing your clone is "kill it", so would it's initial thought. Your reaction time would be the same, your speed, your fighting style... every time you feint, your clone would know it was a feint, because that would be what they'd do in that situation. The fight ends when one of you has an extra bit of luck, which will be shortly followed by the other fighter getting the same luck, and you both crash to the floor in a pool of your own intestines.

 

[Danik93]

The clone have the same DNA so... i don't know doesn't that make us biological related... and I don't feel like banging my twin...

 

[Charlie the Grenadier]

I'd kill it.

Sure, it might possess a dirty imagination of equal grade to my own, as well as being a rather unselfish lover. But it would also possess the flawless methods of argumentation and discussion that I do, meaning that it would be impossible for me to win any debates, and also there's that issue with not being completely unique anymore.

Still it would be one vicious fighter if it has to fend for it's own life. It would use every dirty trick in the book and would probably start swinging a knife at me too. So it would be a challenge, but a necessary one.

There is a theory which applies to this actually- if your first thought upon seeing your clone is "kill it", so would it's initial thought. Your reaction time would be the same, your speed, your fighting style... every time you feint, your clone would know it was a feint, because that would be what they'd do in that situation. The fight ends when one of you has an extra bit of luck, which will be shortly followed by the other fighter getting the same luck, and you both crash to the floor in a pool of your own intestines.

I wanna see this fight.

 

[Trivun]

I'd date them, provided that the clone was raised in Ireland. Because my perfect girl is Irish and either red-haired or black-haired. Although I am also leaning to the whole 'get out of my house, imposter!' idea...

 

[Womplord]

I would play endless hours of games with it and then have sex with it.

 

[tahrey]

Though if it has the same memories etc as you, up to the point of creation anyway, then it will know something's up and so no longer be running down the same thought path as yourself. This is creditable if maybe they'd end up thinking "OMG, I've been kidnapped, cloned, and had my gender reversed... I've got to kill the clone that looks like me and is going to take over my life then figure out what happened and correct it".

And really, if the person who made the apparent clone did that, you can't be sure that's the truth. From here on out it all gets a little bit Spiderman (around the time of the Scarlet Spider), early days El Goonish Shive, and that one Adam Warren-drawn Dirty Pair where Sleet makes an evil clone of Yuri. In other words, incredibly confusing, both sides thinking they're the "real one", but with a slight suspicion of "what if I'm not?", and no-one really knowing what's happened.

I/We'd probably indulge in a bit of mutual curiosity-satisfying and reporting back (ahem) - assuming something in the whole process didn't leave either a/ a very unattractive clone (I've done the online face morph thing... not a supermodel, but dateable), b/ a built in sense of revulsion at the idea. I'm curious about how it would go and feel, so with any luck the clone-me (or real-me, post-alteration) would feel the same way.

Then after that bit of getting to the bottom we'd club up and try to get to the bottom of it. Maybe involve any benevolent but pervy teenage mad scientists, fellow trouble consultants or ambivalent super-hero-villain types who happen to be knocking around.

EDIT: Odd, this was written as a quote-reply to wordsmith's "but they'd try to kill you too" post. Don't know what happened to the quotey bit.

Poiumty: what, put on a lot of jumpers and sit next to a radiator?
Trivun: it wouldn't really be your clone any more though. and you'd be quite a bit older by the time it turned up. I think the idea here is that it's a scientific miracle, fastgrown in a vat Avatar (or *insert previous material that had exactly the same idea here*) style, so it's effectively the same age as you and has all your memories (at least, up to the point where you were snatched and drugged with rohypnol to get the samples) implanted.
womplord: hey, good idea. hadn't thought of that. you know how hard it is to get hold of people who play the sort of games i enjoy around here? (I don't have a 360/PS3 and my PC is laughable - it's all offline stuff pretty much exclusively). If it's against my brother then it's always something he's been practicing for months and probably some kind of button-combo fighter I have no hope of ever picking up. My oppo twin (as they'd have to be disguised) would be a much better match - and hopefully no accusations of cheating, at least not til our experience diverged a bit more.

 

[Slythernite]

I'd kill it.

Sure, it might possess a dirty imagination of equal grade to my own, as well as being a rather unselfish lover. But it would also possess the flawless methods of argumentation and discussion that I do, meaning that it would be impossible for me to win any debates, and also there's that issue with not being completely unique anymore.

Still it would be one vicious fighter if it has to fend for it's own life. It would use every dirty trick in the book and would probably start swinging a knife at me too. So it would be a challenge, but a necessary one.

There is a theory which applies to this actually- if your first thought upon seeing your clone is "kill it", so would it's initial thought. Your reaction time would be the same, your speed, your fighting style... every time you feint, your clone would know it was a feint, because that would be what they'd do in that situation. The fight ends when one of you has an extra bit of luck, which will be shortly followed by the other fighter getting the same luck, and you both crash to the floor in a pool of your own intestines.

As soon as the clone is created, it becomes a seperate entity from you, and therefore, begins its own thought processes. While some parts of you may be the same, the clone's environment would immediately make it a different person. I don't think that anything like that would occur, unless you and the clone are permanently given exactly the same stimulus. Forever.

 

[Frequen-Z]

My clone would probably be as much of an unattractive prick as myself, so i'd shoot the ****.

This is my most favourite reply ever.

I'd kill it.

Sure, it might possess a dirty imagination of equal grade to my own, as well as being a rather unselfish lover. But it would also possess the flawless methods of argumentation and discussion that I do, meaning that it would be impossible for me to win any debates, and also there's that issue with not being completely unique anymore.

Still it would be one vicious fighter if it has to fend for it's own life. It would use every dirty trick in the book and would probably start swinging a knife at me too. So it would be a challenge, but a necessary one.

There is a theory which applies to this actually- if your first thought upon seeing your clone is "kill it", so would it's initial thought. Your reaction time would be the same, your speed, your fighting style... every time you feint, your clone would know it was a feint, because that would be what they'd do in that situation. The fight ends when one of you has an extra bit of luck, which will be shortly followed by the other fighter getting the same luck, and you both crash to the floor in a pool of your own intestines.

This is a very interesting theory, but with these circumstances it doesn't take into account the gender change, not to sound sexist but men are genetically bigger and stronger and more brutish and could probably get the upper hand.

Still, I'd want a fight with someone like me just once. Fight then be friends.

 

[jigs160]

BUT HOW DO I KNOW I'M NOT THE CLONE!
dun dun dun....

 

[Timotheus]

1. discuss, what has happened and the question of whether she is my clone or I'm hers
2. find out, how she developed, so I know, how I would have developed as a female
3. talk about the effect of gender on somebody's personality
4. I don't know, maybe doing sth together, unless we don't have any hobbies in common (which would be pretty interesting for 2 an 3)

Also: Think of the clone is a nearly identical twin. I think scientists have found out, that the closer you are related to sb, the less (s)he will be attractive for you. Nature's way of preventing inbreeding.

 

[Devious Boomer]

She would be my partner in crime. Having a genderswapped clone CAN be useful in many ways.

 

[Danzaivar]

The people saying they'd screw their clone have to be only childs. Even the thought makes me wretch a bit.

But err, there's no 'mild indifference, help em sort themselves out' option as it's all KILL or SHAG. Get to the bottom of it I suppose?

 

[Womplord]

My clone would probably be as much of an unattractive prick as myself, so i'd shoot the ****.

This is my most favourite reply ever.

I'd kill it.

Sure, it might possess a dirty imagination of equal grade to my own, as well as being a rather unselfish lover. But it would also possess the flawless methods of argumentation and discussion that I do, meaning that it would be impossible for me to win any debates, and also there's that issue with not being completely unique anymore.

Still it would be one vicious fighter if it has to fend for it's own life. It would use every dirty trick in the book and would probably start swinging a knife at me too. So it would be a challenge, but a necessary one.

There is a theory which applies to this actually- if your first thought upon seeing your clone is "kill it", so would it's initial thought. Your reaction time would be the same, your speed, your fighting style... every time you feint, your clone would know it was a feint, because that would be what they'd do in that situation. The fight ends when one of you has an extra bit of luck, which will be shortly followed by the other fighter getting the same luck, and you both crash to the floor in a pool of your own intestines.

This is a very interesting theory, but with these circumstances it doesn't take into account the gender change, not to sound sexist but men are genetically bigger and stronger and more brutish and could probably get the upper hand.

Still, I'd want a fight with someone like me just once. Fight then be friends.

It'd be like the battle in the water temple of zelda ocarina of time with the clone link!

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Wait, if it's a girl, I couldn't tell she was my clone- after all she has to look very different.
Ok, assuming I somehow know she's my clone, I'd probably ask where the fuck she'd come from, and definitely not have sex with her- that'd be pretty much incest.

 

[yoyo13rom]

I'd befriend it. I always wanted a Little Sister(clone)

 

[Talendra]

I would scream "That me is a spy!" and set them on fire.

 

[DarkRyter]

Ehh, Why would you consider an intimate relationship with a clone of yourself? I fail to comprehend why this would would be an attractive option to anyone. It has sweeping parallels to incest, at best.

More to masturbation then incest.

I would screw my clone, but only out of my extreme narcissism.