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It has been said that, even if human reproductive cloning become some day a safe and secure procedure, a clone would suffer some sort of harm. This assertion obviously depends on the way the concept of harm is defined. It is argued that someone is harmed when living in a condition that is harmful, no element of comparison with a previous unharmed condition being required. It is concluded that a clone would not suffer any ontological or existential harm; but it would certainly suffer some psychological distress, resulting from irrational expectations on it
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Goffi, JY. (2007). The Harm of Being a Clone. In: Fagot-Largeault, A., Rahman, S., Torres, J.M. (eds) The Influence of Genetics on Contemporary Thinking. Logic, Epistemology, and The Unity of Science, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5664-2_10
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