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Here the idea is to clone a human being to produce another human with the same genetic makeup as the original individual, where the human clone will serve as an organ bank, so that if the original individual loses an arm in an accident, or winds up with liver cancer, appropriate spare parts will be available, and no problem of rejection will arise.

If the resulting cloned human being were a person, it would, of course, be wrong to take parts from him or her to repair the damage to the original individual. The idea, however, is that something will be done to the brain of the human that is produced so that the human organism in question never has a conscious thought, and thus is not a neo‐Lockean person.