Re:Why I Cloned My Dog
by oh_sigh on Friday March 02, 2018 @07:48PM
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Hitler clones would be interesting. Hitler didn't have a great early life - would he have been different if he grew up in a healthy household with two loving parents?
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Re:Why I Cloned My Dog
by mynameishere on Friday March 02, 2018 @08:10PM
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The whole point of that (awful [1]) movie was that they artificially arranged to have the clones grow up much as Hitler did. The first few scenes have hitmen killing the clones' fathers at the same age as the real Adolf.
[1] Well, at least Steve Guttenberg and Lawrence Olivier got to be in the same film. It was either that or Police Academy XII.
Re:Why I Cloned My Dog
by DoreenMichele on Friday March 02, 2018 @07:50PM
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Yes. A recent twin incident proved that nurture plays a surprisingly large role, larger than was expected by the investigators.
I'm not sure, the article doesn't mention any of that.
It actually tries (weakly) to claim the opposite, with statements like "Carlos and Wilber both had very similar white mobile phones" and "We are a little bit more ego-centric, bigger flirts."
Nothing about nurture playing a role though.
Re:Why I Cloned My Dog
by DoreenMichele on Friday March 02, 2018 @08:08PM
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It's the first article I could find that referenced the twins in question. But researchers said they were surprised how much impact upbringing had. Unlike a lot of twins separated at birth, these were raised in very different socioeconomic circumstances.
Project about them: http://drnancysegaltwins.org/bogota-twins-project-gallery
The best reference I can currently come up with is this comment by tokenadult who has a longstanding interest in twin studies:
Re:Why I Cloned My Dog
by HillaryBriss on Friday March 02, 2018 @07:56PM
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generalizing that idea just a bit: what if, for each murderer who was executed, the government cloned that person first, in an effort to allow them to have a normal, crime-free life?
would it count as a form of rehabilitation?