Full grown clones would still have to be genetically perfect and act just like you enough, to not get noticed. So, even if aged up, they would probably have to pass regular and DNA test to successfully replace someone like the President. That is, if they don't get caught beforehand trying to replace them, in the first place.Maybe in the far future there will be more ethical concerns with it, but right now we don't have the know-how to "age up" clones like you see in Rick and Morty or other sci-fi. So nobody's gonna get away with replacing the president with a baby, for example.
Watch out, they make you fight a buff senator and a meme lover.Hell yeah, once I'm dead what do I care. Unless they can resurrect my consciousness into a badass ninja cyborg, in which case, go for it!
If you find a particularly special human (harder, smarter, faster, more docile, combination of particular traits you like, immunity to various disease, lack of certain traits), one that is mostly genetic level nature rather than nurture, that basic mate selection is unlikely to replicate to terribly easily* (maybe the traits you like are recessive to a serious degree) then cloning to reproduce that provides a pretty decent reason.There's not really a reason to create a human clone other than scientific interest.
The can't aspect maybe. Don't want to is more in the surrogacy (existed for a long time now, 1986 being the first there for gestational where a fertilised embryo is carried to term, probably ancient times for the sperm donor approach) and artificial wombs (sheep back in 2017 https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/25/...uterus-lamb-sheep-birth-premie-preterm-infant which is complex mammalian life as far as I am concerned rather than some of the fun they were having with artificial bacteria and viruses), neither of which involves any cloning at all but might benefit any cloning efforts.Well, cloning could give people children to people that don't want or can't do so the regular way.
I’d say that instead of wanting to clone someone with those types of traits, you would want to isolate those genes and give that to any embryo without just making an identical twin. Though, we are definitely closer in technology to cloning than genetic modification.If you find a particularly special human (harder, smarter, faster, more docile, combination of particular traits you like, immunity to various disease, lack of certain traits), one that is mostly genetic level nature rather than nurture, that basic mate selection is unlikely to replicate to terribly easily* (maybe the traits you like are recessive to a serious degree) then cloning to reproduce that provides a pretty decent reason.
If you can combine it with some serious genetic engineering, maybe some cybernetics and some memory implants you are well on the way to something truly fun.
*smart parents tend to produce smart kids ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5754247/ ), harder to produce geniuses though.
Isolating gets harder (very few traits are single expression, and that is before we contemplate recessive and dominant aspects. https://www.sidmartinbio.org/what-are-examples-of-single-gene-traits/ for a nice enough primer on it and closely related subjects) but the modification aspect seems reasonable enoughI’d say that instead of wanting to clone someone with those types of traits, you would want to isolate those genes and give that to any embryo without just making an identical twin. Though, we are definitely closer in technology to cloning than genetic modification.