Talk:Ruby Rose/@comment-25555436-20150617210046/@comment-26018514-20150619173925

You don't understand the implications of cloning do you Weebling?

First off, a creature is a creature is a creature. The components are the same, this means you are looking at best at nearly the same materials cost, growth, and training requirements as a real child, you might get ethics nuts interfering, and the genetic stock you are cloning from needs to be superior and resist degradation.

Secondly, the Semblance could not be the same(and thus candidates would not be chosen for it), Semblance is the Soul, which could be similar in the clones themselves, but to have a bunch of clones interested in the same things as the human that made them requires the human to be just as ideally selfless/expendable as the clone army, which in your delusional dystopia idea would be horrible, because due to genetic degradation the original would be the best stock to clone and the clones would not substitute well.

Thirdly, these soldiers would die like humans, the entire point of robots in this situation is to remove humans from the front lines, clones are still humans, to deny that yet call them copies is to deny the one cloned their humanity.

In short: Clones would be horrible for genetic diversity, yet have similar cost to simply increasing population, are inferior to an ultimate android design, you cannot just dump/remove/replace them as easily, and the project itself would be in no way cost efficient.