Iron Man, Mr. Fantastic and Yellowjacket finally lost me with the decision to strip the freewill of their Thor clone in a marathon 36+ hour operation in the pages of Civil War # 6. While the death at the hands of the Thor clone earlier in the series was shocking and unacceptable, that doesn't mean that I'm going to support stripping him of freewill.
If I'm somehow deemed heroic enough or find myself wealthy enough for cloning sometime in the future, I can posit some scenarios where the current me would find such cloning acceptable.
Perhaps the clones could somehow house my current consciousness, so I would never have to die of old age (cf. Altered Carbon). Is someone working on portable compressed digital brain storage? Enough with the MP3 players already.
I could even see possibly giving my current DNA a few extra lives starting from scratch with no influence from my current self. Either way my clones would have lives to live as they saw fit.
Could I bear to harvest them for body parts to perpetuate my own existence (cf. The Island)? Possibly, I am forced to admit.
But cybernetic versions of me running around at the beck and call of whoever sponsored them? That sounds more like something out of RoboCop. I suppose that might be better than having my DNA wiped from the Universe in death, but probably not by much.
I'm still rooting for Iron Man, Ms. Marvel and the other Registered heroes to demonstrate the good in these initiatives. With the laws as they are and the shift in thinking among the normal populace of the Marvel Universe, though perhaps ultimately too swift, too ungrateful for past good deeds, and overzealous, what choice do they really have. I just can't keep the banner up any longer though. I certainly don't have a handle on how to justify the anti-registration stance, so that won't be going up either.
Hopefully soon the heroes will realize there are things happening outside of their Civil War and stop thinking so much in those terms, like they appear to do here in Eternals # 6:
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