#1141 Matti Häyry: Cloning and Antinatalism

Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by a returned guest, guest, Dr. Mati Hairu. He is professor of philosophy at Alto University School of Business in Finland. Last time we talked about his book on anti-natalism, and today we're talking about his latest book, Pure Cloning.

So Mati, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you on again. Thank you. Thank you very much. Always a pleasure to be here.

So start by telling us then where is pure and in pure cloning? Well, cloning, as you mean, means producing genetic copies or genetic neocopies, there's some mitochondria or whatever somewhere in there of an organism. So copies. And when people started to talk about human cloning, 50, 60 years ago, they also talked about genetic enhancements, about making people people better, either by selection before the new individual even exists, or by gene technology when they do exist.

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