@amiloradovsky@functional.cafe The biological cloning thing in pop culture never made sense to me either. From what I understand you'd just get a baby at best, and that age gap by itself already invalidates most dilemmas, even if you have a perfect plan to raise them exactly the same way. Legally They become equivalent to children. If the clone is made at conception it's just twins. If too many are made at conception it's just a degeneracy. It doesn't work however you try to slice it. To raise all the usual dilemmas an electromagnetic copy would make more sense, but that's in the realm of the fantastical.

Now I will address the real reason for my reply, the trolley problem, which I hate even even more than you, since to me it's nefarious and not just waste of time. My conviction is that the situation is only possible if orchestrated by a perpetrator, who is not mentioned, and therefore assumed to be acceptable. To convince someone to accept the dichotomy (not even choose a stance) in this context is to convince them to allow themselves to be manipulated by such perpetrators, instead of challenging them. If you do find yourself is similar dilemma your first conclusion should be that whoever is conveying you the information is trying to manipulate you. I advice, when presented with the trolley problem, to relentlessly pressure the presenter in accusatory manner (did you tie those people to the rail? how do you know they are there then? you have a surveillance system in place and yet didn't prevent this situation? if they compromised the surveillance system, how do I know they didn't compromise the lever? are you in cahoots with them?) and enjoy their frustration.

@machado