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[Grim Portent]

Legal ramifications shouldn't be too hard so long as you issue a birth certificate to each new copy. If you're married, the first version of you stays married and the second does not. If you don't like that, maybe you should have thought about it before creating another human being who is you.

Assuming polyamory is legal in the relevant jurisdiction the new copy could just be added to the marriage.

[Egan_BW]

Yeah, but I'd make that a separate process because we can't assume that the spouse wants to be married to two or more identical people.

[Frumple]

Legal ramifications shouldn't be too hard so long as you issue a birth certificate to each new copy. If you're married, the first version of you stays married and the second does not. If you don't like that, maybe you should have thought about it before creating another human being who is you.

Maybe, but then you hit the census problem. Great heaps of civil administration would become an antediluvian bureaucratic nightmare of the sort that makes lifelong civil servants curl up in a corner and cry blood in the face of a thousand pages of the exact same name, all differentiated basically by a birthday (or, in some cases, maybe even a birth time, when several show up on the same day) and nothing else. Your greatest obstacle when it comes to implementing the methods that creates the copies would be the engineers and scientists that made it possible getting murdered by the local notary public. Even the less involved of such folks would be after blood and viscera.

... and I'm not entirely sure how much I'm joking. Because seriously, you'd need something in place to deal with that just like you would the legal issues if -- never mind the ethical or metaphysical or similar such thing aspect -- the logistics side of things wasn't going to become an example of existential sisyphean horror for anyone having to deal with it.

[TD1]

It would simply be regulated in a way so as to conform to paperwork.

You can only create a copy once a year, type thing. The name for each subsequent copy must possess a different name from the "original."

Bureaucrats are better at making reality fit the paperwork than making the paperwork fit reality.

[Descan]

That and tattoos/implants. :v

[Grim Portent]

I'm not so sure it would be that hard to deal with clone paperwork. Legally registering them as a different person from the original would be a touch tedious for all involved, but needn't be any more awkward than registering (and then dealing with) multiple identical children who are all called Bob. Which is to say it would be annoying as hell, but not legally difficult.

Say John Smith gets cloned/duplicated, you then have John Smith (A) and John Smith (B). You can copy all the relevant records of A to B and thereafter treat B as a separate entity from A, with entitlements to property arranged beforehand by A, and possibly some stuff about the original being liable for the clone's care for a period of time. They basically become twins who happen to have the same name and legal/medical history

Provided you issue B a new NIN/SSN/Whatever your country uses for tax records and paperwork tracking it shouldn't be much harder to tell John A and John B apart than it is to tell apart any other same name people with similar DNA.

The biiiiiiiiiig problem would be the counseling the majority of clones would need to cope with being the copy. Unless you clone a bunch of psychiatrists there would be a waiting list longer than the electoral roll. 

[TheDarkStar]

What if someone commits a crime and then duplicates themselves?

[Grim Portent]

What if someone commits a crime and then duplicates themselves?

Before they've been punished? Both are liable since they should share the same legal history up to the point of cloning.

After they've been punished? Clone can't be punished because it already was essentially.

[wierd]

Bad plan.

See technical exploit: man commits crime norm ally punished by 50yrs prison. Clones self 50 times before sentencing. Each clone does 1 year.

Alternate:
Man still Clones self 50 times. All 51 people now in prison concurrently. Prison system collapses under overcrowding stresses on the system.

Alt 2:

Man does crime and creates clone. Man does time, clone does not.

All are bad outcomes for different reasons.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

You call that an exploit? Oh, no no no.

Clone yourself, decapitate clone, mail clone head to police station, assume new identity and don't go to prison.

[wierd]

No, you get a murder investigation.

For murdering yourself.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Ah, but they'll never suspect it! Just as it is easier to get away with murdering a random stranger because there is no tangible connection if you aren't caught red-handed, it is easy to get away with murdering yourself because the suspect list obviously does not include you. They'll waste all their time investigating your family, friends, and enemies then either give up or put an innocent person in prison instead of you.
 
Using the investigative system against itself allows one to easily get away with it.

[Grim Portent]

Ah, but they'll never suspect it! Just as it is easier to get away with murdering a random stranger because there is no tangible connection if you aren't caught red-handed, it is easy to get away with murdering yourself because the suspect list obviously does not include you. They'll waste all their time investigating your family, friends, and enemies then either give up or put an innocent person in prison instead of you.
 
Using the investigative system against itself allows one to easily get away with it.

If cloning was a known possibility then it would be one of the first things they'd check for.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

See, you say that but it's far from impossible that someone could do that now, albeit not with a severed adult head.

I wonder how much cloned human flesh you'd have to mail to a police station before they assumed you were dead.

[Grim Portent]

See, you say that but it's far from impossible that someone could do that now, albeit not with a severed adult head.

I wonder how much cloned human flesh you'd have to mail to a police station before they assumed you were dead.

I think it would be cheaper to just flee somewhere with no extradition and buy a good quality of life than it would be to clone enough realistic tissue to fake your own death.

Not to mention the time involved in growing human meat while on the run from the cops, let alone that your assets have probably been frozen.