Clone Soldiers

Imagine being born and waking up in a test tube, you see people in white coats looking at you. Beside you, you see other tubes with new borns in them as well. One of the people in white coats tap on the glass, saying that they're your brothers and sisters. And also say that you'll be serving their country along side them soon. You don't know what he meant, but over time after your out the tube as the rest all of you will learn things you could only dream of. The people in white coats teach you all stuff about the outside world, but sadly mostly about guns, assault vehicles, artilery, battle ships, jets, and bombers. As you learn along side your brothers and sisters you'll start to feel close to a feel of them as well. You'll start having fun with them playing many types of games with them like catch, tag, & hide and seek. All of a sudden you notice that your brothers and sisters are aging faster, as you age fast with them as well. By the time you guys turn into adults the people in white coats give you potions to stop the quick aging, making you age as normal as them. After which they teach you guys even more things such as training, where they teach how to hold and shoot guns, how to take cover from fire, how to drive assault vehicles, how to control huge support cannons, how to fly jets and bombers, or even controlling a heavily armed battle ships. They even teach you hand to hand combat (which is the most painful part of training). When months of hard training is finnaly finish they put you to the final test- fighting 3 combat programmed robots alone, and their not push overs either. Those robots are hard to beat yet suddenly you some how destroy them, like the rest of your brothers and sisters did as well. The people white coats seem so proud of you guys, you even hear some say "Our theory is correct! Clone soldiers are more superior than mechanical ones.". A few days later the people in white coats finnally let you guys out of the lab, giving each of you a rifle as you head out. As you guys went out side, all of sudden, you see a HUGE MASSIVE ARMY of your brothers and sisters. All of them are lined up in rows, your closest brothers and sisters as well as you have been told to seperate as you guys go into each row. You'll start looking around the massive army being amazed how huge it's actually is, then you see a few of your brothers and sisters that you feel close to you are waving at you in far parts of the army. You wave back to let them know you see them, then suddenly you see this helicoptor out of no where landing near the army. There you see a person coming out of it acting as you guys leader, telling you guy's one purpose why your here.........to serve in the military and fight in a war. And as clones soldiers you must obey your country and as GENETICLY CONTROLLED clones you WILL. After a few days you guys went to your first battle, and it was HELL. Bullets were flying every where, explotions are every where, and bodies are piling up. All of your brothers and sisters that you feel close to are dead. Luckily remembering many of your training helps you suivive the entire battle. Now the my question is, what would you do next after the battle? and what's your opinion of a clone's life?


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SWG, you covered the physical development of these soldiers, and their military training, but you neglected to describe their emotional growth.  Humans, even cloned ones, have emotions unless the genetic altering affected this too.  What the limits on this would be is unknown, since emotional reactions to stimuli has been part of human evolution (along with all major primates, canines, equines, and so on) for millions of years.  Emotions are so connected to our (at this point I started writing in medical terms, but decided to be generalized.   If you want specifics, let me know) bodily functioning that eliminating emotions altogether would probably be impossible IF you wanted to still call the clones "humans".

    So, I am postulating that these clones can feel emotions, and were given some type of training that allowed these emotions to be manipulated (otherwise, why have "brothers" and "sisters" as the lab techs imprint them).  Now, it may be possible to train a soldier in a year, and with accelerated growth produce a full size mature human body, but it takes years to learn to master the emotions.  The brain is fully developed for years before a human is considered emotionally mature.  Most current soldiers probably wouldn't be considered as emotionally mature by a psychologist, let alone someone who is only chronologically five or six.

    So, without your postulating special emotional training and/or brainwashing, what you have are children in soldiers bodies who would at this point be suffereing from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (formerly called battle fatigue, and before that, shell shock).   It affects different people in different ways, and some of these ways are extreme.  In normal human times, some soldiers go beserk, killing people seemingly at random.  This is fairly rare, but the clones are children, and they have their own pathology, which is much more outwardly destruction than the way mature humans handle this with inward destruction (depression, fatigue, suicide, alienation, neurological damage).  Since at least a third of normal soldiers contract PTSD, I have to figure that the clones will be suseptible to this disease too.  Being emotionally children they will have a larger rate of infection.

   The many ways the clones can manifest their symptoms are interesting to contemplate.  Some, the most violent cases, will go on killing sprees, killing indiscriminately.  Some, will stop functioning, sit down and stop eating.  Many will wander like zombies, committing random acts of destruction, or targeted acts of destruction, much like a motorcycle gang stereotype.  Some will rebel against their former leaders, and some will insist on continuing the attack on the enemy, no matter what.  Many will take drugs to numb the emotional angst if they are available.  Generally as a group they will be abusive, whether intentionally or not, directed inwardly or outwardly, and exhibit erratic behaviour.

    Plus, since they have matured beyond physical puberty, they have the emotional equipment necessary to form strong sex/romance based relationships with other soldiers.  The death of a romance partner to an emotionally immature person can cause PTSD all by itself, much less compounded with warfare.  It is more likely to push someone totally over the edge into insanity than almost anything else.  Since some of the others are brothers and sisters, I assume you are breaking them into small enough groups for this to be meaningful.  Family member deaths also contribute to PTSD and give an extra push towards insanity.

    So, that is my conclusion, they all end up crazy at the very least.  I think a clone's life would be terrible and a waste of time and effort.  It would be better to surrender to the enemy than to be the kind of person that would create that kind of misery.  After all, this is Nuclear Age.  It is never going to be impossible to just wipe everybody out, so their enemies would have already killed them if that was the point of the war.  But the point of your war is to make the enemy surrender, or you would just nuke them instead of sending out cloned soldiers.

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A great answer, but the last part is not totally true. Nukes are extremely primitive weapons, why? It's because of what you said, THEY WIPE OUT EVERYTHING. The enemy always have something we must have such as important supplies or even captured people. A mindless attack like that will cause our own WORLD to the point of insanity, it will even cause roits and even civil wars in countries that started idiotic stuff like that. In fact, the whole human race will turn against you in fear, even your closest allies. Human nature is chaotic, but it ain't retarded. Nukes will be an utter waste of time because it causes more problems and more enemies

Posted 2009-03-25T23:35:42Z
 
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I still like your anwser though, but remember this. All life are not born the same, even if they're plants or even clones. In the outside world you'll see stuff that doesn't even seem possible, even people being immune to the most horrid deseases, and even horrid lives. Although in realty nothing ever seems impossible, long ago people didn't beleive in such nonsense that carts will traval with no horses, that man can fly, and even that man can even traval though the stars. But in time things like that did happen, cars were invented, planes were too, and even a few guys actually walked on the moon. Im still waiting for creative answers, you answer with a great opinion in the second one but all you say in my first question is that you go crazy, never imagining about what else you're gonna do next, never imagine what so many things one person/clone can actually do. Even if your controlled there might be a chance freeing yourself and telling good people what their own government is doing to them, or even make yourself a hero saving your relatives from your evil leaders. I don't care, just show how creative you can be so I know that people from yedda are not just robots that give quick detailed answers.

Posted 2009-03-26T00:14:32Z
 
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i dont think god put us on the earth to be cloned. there is only one of us, and i dont think man should fool around with mother nature and gods word.

 
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..........Do you guys even read my entire question? It talks about what if you have their lives, not about CLONING YOURSELF. It also asks about what your going to do next.

Posted 2009-03-27T02:01:28Z

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