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Isabella Camejo 10°A
If someone you loved was killed in front of you, but someone create a copy of them that was perfect right down to the atomic level, would they be the same person? Would you love them as much?
I believe that you love someone because of who they are as a whole human being. You love someone based on the circumstances. Also, we all love our family even though we may not like something about them. For example, I love my brother even though sometimes he has arrogant attitudes that annoy me. But mostly I believe that relationships are based on memories. When you have a crush on someone it can be based on their looks, or on a simple gesture, they had towards you. For instance, someone you just meet opened the door for you, or simply was nice. That is enough for you to like them. When we love someone we recall times that we spent together with them and cherish them as if they were the most precious thing. We hold onto those memories that brought happiness into our lives, and when we fight with the ones we love those memories are the ones that help us realize that a fight isn't worth losing that happiness they made us feel.
If I was caught up in a situation in which I could bring back a person I loved as a copy I don't think I would take it. I wouldn't let anyone make a copy of someone mainly because I'm scared of cloning ever happening. I'm scared of science evolving to such an extent that it would control us. Also, because I don't believe it would be the same as it was before. The copy wouldn't remember every memory the real person had; memories that built that person to be who he was. The clone would never experience an event that shaped his personality, so he wouldn't act the same way. Therefore it wouldn't be the same. I would rather live with those amazing memories and have the image of them in my mind forever to remember that having a clone that is not the same and doesn't know who I am and why he or she loved me. That alone would never replace the memories and relationship I had with that special someone, and it wouldn't love me the way the real person did. I would rather bear the pain of losing that someone if it meant I could keep the memories shared with me, and remember for the rest of my life the love we share for one another. I would always love that person, but I don't think I would love the copy as much because it's simply not that person and it would never be the same.