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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Not at all. There are several reasons. First of
all, if you have a copy and you are damaged beyond repair - say in a plane crash
or explosion, you can be brought back. Your only loss is the information from
the period between the copy and the event that killed you.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Then there is the exploration factor. How I would
love to go traveling the stars. How I would love to stay here. With a copy I
could do both. Then at some point in the future, I could integrate the two and
remember the experiences of both. How could that be a bad thing?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Power, money, greed? Well, greed isn;t so bad as
long as you don't reduce the quality of life for others by being greedy. Money -
again, not a bad thing. Power, well, as far as I know, the more copies you have
of yourself, the more diluted your power becomes. Of course, you could gain
power by making copues of "the perfect soldier" but by the time this technology
is available, we are hoping such a soldier is either no longer necessary, or
already capable of being produced artificially on a production line. In other
words, there are more efficient means of accomplishing the same task and
probably with better results. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Meanwhile, being in sales, I sure wish I had a few
copies of myself now! 1 for marketing, 1 for working existing loans, 1 for sales
calls, and 1 for complaints. I could make 4 times as much money. The results
would put me besides myself!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Copying myself seems like a very egotistical thing to do. We
already have</DIV>
<DIV>enough people on the planet. I could only see it being used for the
wrong</DIV>
<DIV>reasons. Power, money and greed. I could see how the army
make like the </DIV>
<DIV>idea or the business man might think it useful but I can't see how it
will help</DIV>
<DIV>humans or technology. </DIV>
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