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Saturday, June 08, 2002 Droid vs. Clone John McGuinness at Man Bites Blog has an interesting thought on both the movie and the idea: ATTACK OF THE CLONES AND CLONING "Everyone's racing to point out how Attack of the Clones doesn't say anything about the theraputic cloning debate, but I think it does. I couldn't help but think that it was no major loss if one of the cloned soldiers got killed. Somehow, his origin diminishes my perception of the dignity and sanctity of the clone's life. Maybe the problem's with my perception, but I can't help but think that advancements that lead me to regard life as cheap are a good thing." I saw the movie recently and had mixed feelings about it. It is maybe the second best of the Stars Wars movies, but that's not saying a lot. Anyway, I noticed that we (the audience) doesn't give a darn about the Clone soldiers (faceless, yes) even though they are the good guys, the good side in the movie. John noticed this, too, and wonders if their manner of creation diminishes their humanity. I think it does. The way they are described and presented, anyway, does do that. They are treated entirely as disposable things, no different than the droid army they face. We never consider the clones as fully human, but as purely expendable. (Of course, in all the Lucas movies we never see the Storm Troopers as anything but faceless expendables.) This is hardly an argument against cloning in the current debate - "Hey, dude, didn't you see Star Wars, man? Who cared about the clones there? Nobody, dude. So don't you see, cloning is bad, man, it like, makes people into machines, ya know?" But it is a curious experience. Thanks to John for the thought. posted by Mark Butterworth | 12:59 AM | |
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