This is a first draft of an old intro I had back in the beginning. Boy, did it change a lot.
Preface
I had never given much thought to the atrocities humans had committed in the past. Being in highschool I was worried more about passing biology than thinking about things like that. However when confronted with such a thing. It causes you to think, what is considered fare and equal?
The Declaration of Independence gives all men the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But when the very definition of "man" is questioned where does that leave us as a society? And how do we determine the explanation of mankind?
The old adage of 'if I knew then what I know now' was bearing it weigh upon my chest. In 1991 the first human was successfully cloned. Then in 1992 more cloning was done, without public knowledge. By the end of the year thousands had been cloned. Cloning humans was illegal but the government had no proof of these experiments. Rumors spread through out the world that clones did exist and lived among us.
In 2008, when the ban on cloning was lifted and some of the clones identities were forced out into the public and the world we lived in changed.
A new view of what was considered "human" brought about hate, anger and a new form of blatant bigotry from many people.
The views of some blurred the lines between what was wholesome & just to what was legal. While a new law made it illegal to murder a clone, it left a loop hole for the use of clones organs to be used in medical experiments and to preserve "real human" lives.
How do I fit into all this? I was born human, or at least the old fashioned way. I had no real views on what a clone was, or do I thought.
Having been born in a small town I knew very little of clones. I didn't feel for them as a people or against them as clones. But that all changed my sophomore year in high school. When I met him Liam Kingsley, a clone.
