[Ghost of SVR4]

I don't think it much matters after a couple hundred years. Even if any of us could be perfectly cloned this moment our two bodies cannot inhabit the same space which means by default a divergence of consciousness into individuality as we observe our surroundings (albeit with possibly the same thoughts) with different perspectives. The course of time and the clone's/original's experiences will make them unique.

just my $0.02 anyway..

[Norm Lenhart]

I think by definition that divergence is instant. But then that brings up another can of ethical (or more exactly, lack thereof) worms.

Anyone agreeing to this would have to do it KNOWING that they were committing genocide. On themselves and humanity. And when the last human replicated and eventually died, humanity would cease to be. And all the moral constraints that governed that humanity along with it.

There is simply no need for morality when one can simply be replicated or disposed of/scrapped/erased.