Starting as a Mechanical Hunter
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Malignant Cloning 2

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Malignant cloning had another, more famous name—the Clone Revolution!

Although, compared to the Mechanical Revolution, which was hated and reviled throughout interstellar society, the "Clone Revolution" was more often treated as a massive social question studied by scholars and experts from various civilizations.

After all, no matter how much damage it caused, it could not harm other civilizations.

And its inherent special nature made many sociologists flock to study it.

Regardless of the type of clone society, it was a world created through cloning. Its ethics and morality were weaker than those of ordinary civilizations.

According to the civilization panel, social morality was reduced by 20%.

If you were a clone, what was your relationship with the person you were cloned from? A legitimate child? A spouse? A slave? Personal property?

If you were the person being cloned, should your property rights be shared with your clone? Aside from property rights, what about your social identity? If he used your social media account and ID card to visit a prostitute and got arrested, would you be held responsible?

Could a hive mind function within a clone civilization?

Could militarism accelerate the evolution of a clone civilization?

Could gestalt thinking completely resolve the ethical issues of clones?

Could perfectly replicating the social conditions of a previous civilization light up that civilization's technology tree, or even let one usurp the other's place and achieve civilizational ascension?

Could other types of civilizations reproduce advanced civilizations by cloning their social structures?

To those who did not understand them, clones and clone civilizations probably all looked more or less alike, and their development should have been roughly the same.

But to those with some understanding of clone cultures, every clone civilization had an entirely different social structure. They might not share a single point of

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