ailithnight reblogged
Scenario: a sample of your DNA was taken, popped into a cell, and cloned into a baby, gestated in a sci-fi artificial womb vat. The first time you or anyone in your family meets this baby is after it has already been born out of said vat. You can hold the newborn if you want, it's up to you, but it is a living breathing baby that was cloned from your DNA and is genetically identical to you.
I love clone philosophy. Give me all your philosophy of clones
#Given that I am not equipped to be a parent#Certainly not that#Beyond that this child is family#And that's all I really know at first#I feel like a relationship will ultimately develop on it's own#And it's not gonna be the same as siblings#But it's gonna be close like that#I feel like it'll end up being much like my own relationship with my mother#For context#My grandmother has raised me since I was a newborn leaving the hospital#And for the vast majority of my life my mother has lived several hours away from me#The person who parented her growing up parented me#But she's not quite my sibling#And she's mostly only my mother in the sense that she birthed me#But at the same time I trust I can turn to her for guidance#Because we are so very similar#And she has experience I don't#It's a very non-traditional relationship#Something nuanced#For which I know no English words#Something between sibling and parent and yet also outside of that structure all together#And I think my relationship with the clone child I know I am not equipped to raise myself would end up being similar