So I've been thinking about this and I think it mostly depends on if my wife was also duplicated. If so, I could see the 4 of us living together and pooling resources. Possibly even working out some shenanigans to double dip or get out of some things. However, I can't see my wife or myself being cool with an arrangement where a duplicate and I share my wife. I don't know if I'd kill The other me over it but, I could see us coming to blows over it.
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No actually we would probably be really sweet to each other and understanding. I am not naturally very competitive or hostile.
I also would bang the clone.
This post and the numerous replies affirming our clones wouldn't try to kill us makes me wonder, what is the basis for this trope? Is it just the assumption that any doppelganger must be evil? I wonder what the cultural origins are, would it be European fae?
Anyway, I'm pretty sure my clone would still try to kill me, but it'd be doing so out of kindness. I've always wanted to die on my feet in combat, and I've never wanted to live, so we'd kinda be fighting over who gets the privilege of death. Whichever one of us wins has to keep going, while the other gets released.
I always felt like murderous clones are a bit different from evil twins.
From a sci-fi perspective, I've noticed that murderous clone stories tend to explore the following themes:
- Whose life is more valid? Does an original have any more right to life than the clone? What aspects of life can never be split between two people with equal claim?
- Would the murder ever matter, in the grand scheme of things? As far as society can tell, the world is exactly the same before you are cloned and after one of you kills the other.
- Could the survivor ever be brought to justice? If the clone tried to kill you because they knew you would try to kill them, does that make it self defence or premeditated murder? Would any punishment would be a net loss for society, when compared before the clone appeared?
- Could this "self destructive" impulse hide deeply inside even the nicest person? How much does a person love themselves? Can self-love even apply when the "self" is also external?
Is it narcissistic to think that having a clone would be awesome as hell?
A friend who thinks exactly the same as I do and can get excited at the same ideas? Hell yeah, we'd be inseparable. I have so many projects that would be much easier done with two people. Also, free gym buddy/trainer. My partner would be into it as well for a multitude of reasons. The only trouble would be living space.
I can't think of anything worthwhile we can do as a single legal entity so first thing we'd do is probably acquire a new legal identity so we can legally work and be taxed separately and just generally participate in society. It would be pretty easy to prove that we're genetically identical and therefore are identical twins born at the same time at the same place to the same parents. Everything else can be chalked up to clerical error. The people in charge of this aren't paid enough to care and dig any further than that.
I think my duplicate and I would take turns working versus staying at home to get things done, like putting together that cat tower/rope-bridge I've (we've) been holding off on
Iβd finally have a reliable coop gaming partner. Neither of us would squander that truly priceless gift.
Also, you can just work either double the time or half each.
Oh god, two of me! π
I think she'd keep telling me dumb jokes while trying to compete with me in drawing, and late at night she'd send me goofy memes that I'd laugh at.
No, we would work together on tasks. I would walk to work while Other Me would take my car and get errands done. Or to change things up a little, Other Me could walk to work and I would run errands.
Hell, Other Me could play my online games and make progress while I'm at work. I've been meaning to level up my Black Mage in FFXIV, but life has kept me busy.
In the evenings, we would have to clearly explain to each other what we did that day and who we interacted with. Otherwise we risk diverging into two different people.
I'm pretty nice. I think it'd take some more intense circumstances like in Dark Matter before I or a copy of me wanted to kill anyone. I wonder if I'd be ok with taking turns for time with loved ones.
hell no, we'd start an onlyfans.
I'd give him the keys, the passwords, and wish him good luck with my life. BUH BEYE!
If he's you and you want to be free of your life and wish it could be someone else's problem then your duplicate is just going to run a mile and thank their lucky stars for this break.
I'm one of the copies and I'm more charming than the original that I killed.
I wouldn't feel compelled to kill my clone, so I don't think my clone would feel compelled to kill me either.
Probably spend the first couple of days fucking and then figure out what happens next after that.
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I don't think I'd kill me. I think it would be cool for one of us to commit a brazen crime in broad daylight whilst also having a rock-solid alibi. I couldn't have killed that person; I was giving a speech to 100 people at the time who can all testify for me. Give detectives etc a real head-scratcher when all the evidence points towards me being the culprit but I was also undeniably somewhere else.
Nah, We would become buddies. We would pretend to be twins in public. We'd split the work, I'd go one week and he'd go the other. We'd play Soulcalibur and Tekken and since we'd both be equally bad it wouldn't be frustrating.
It would be hard to alternate work if its a professional role. You would have to do like update sessions and it would make more work for both of you relative to pay.
Like the twins in βMovingβ with Richard Pryor.
So far my identical twin has not killed me nor have I killed them, so I'd be safe probably.
I've seen so many TV shows, movies, even commercials where a clone or future self doesn't get along with his twin. I don't understand this. I think I'd get along swimmingly with myself. I mean what's better than spending time with someone who thinks like you do?
Hopefully my clone murders me so he's the one that has to go to work
We'd get along fine, but feeding two people on one salary will definitely be annoying (my job has a non-competition clause where I can't pick up a second job in the same field), and getting enough adhd meds for the both of us will be impossible due to strict regulations here.
One of us still could bring value to the household by being the designated bangmaid though
I would trade meticulous handover notes fit in to the working week if it meant I could work one week on, one week off.
you job barely pays enough to feed you AND and you have a noncompete?
There is almost no way that's enforceable.
Nono, it feeds me comfortably, I'm just really into saving up since I want to own an apartment one day and I'd definitely be annoyed at having to feed an extra person with no prior notice.
Yes, cause I operate under Highlander Rules.
Anyone who has the thought: "yes i would kill clone me", you better watch your back, your clone thinks the same way you do.
Too many people with twin fetishism to bother with murder.
i've learned recently that there's a surprisingly large number of people that find me attractive despite my size and age; i would 100% create an only fans page with my duplicate to capitalize on this fact. lol
lmao no, I'm way too lazy to try it, and also don't really have a reason to do something like that.
We'd probably just alternate going to work/uni. The extra free time sounds nice.
I think we would get along well because I love people who laugh at my jokes and nobody laughs as hard at my jokes as I do, except maybe my wife, who after 12 years together still laughs harder than anyone Iβve ever met at my jokes.
Isn't it weird how I can fap without a second thought, but the idea of having my clone give me a hand job disgusts me
But what if you use a gloryhole?
Do his farts smell the same as mine? Then no, sorry dude you've gotta go live somewhere else.
Finally, someone to guilt me into doing things
No. We would go camping and do cool stuff together. The only conflict I foresee is taking turns on the gaming PC, but we would be happy to work together to build a second one.
If it's a perfect copy, without a doubt we'd try to kill each other as soon as the confusion of the situation wore off. We might not succeed, but we'd try.