1x10 - Hauted (and of course there are spoilers)

The instant you create a perfect flawless replica of another it becomes its own person, it can never be the 'same' person. it may act and look like the original but it is not the same. It may have the same memories and peronality traits, but as soon as it starts experiencing it diverges from the original.

As far as the Dollhouse is concerned - it would be impossible for you to live forever through that process, as we have already seen the 'personality glitches' that happen are based on some form of flaw in the system or the dolls brain compensating and reestablishing itself in some way. Correct me if i am wrong, i haven't been paying close attention over the past few weeks - i am more sitting mindlessly staring at the screen when it is on.

But lets say it is possible, the question them becomes would you want to kill someone specifically so you could live longer? And just before you answer with an emphatic yes, what is stopping someone else from erasing you and slamming themselves into your newfound body.

Also take a look at an old persons care facility - most of those people are bored out of their heads and depressed - and they haven't quite managed a single lifetime. It is not your body - as far as i can see - that gives out first, it is the mind, and since that is what is being transplanted - what good would a brand new body do?

And yes i know, not all old people are depressed and pathetic, just most of them - with exception to the senile, they seem to be in a fascinating world all of their own making.

I thought of that as well, the problem with erasing and 'improving' parts of your personality and memories is then you have the question of is it really you. There are a lot of experiences most of have had that we would prefer to remove - but how to you decide which ones are important to your personality and which are not.

Just a quick example - say when you were 9 years old you dropped a jar of Vegemite (or insert any item you care to)- which was bought with your parents last budgeted dollars. You were scalded by your parents and had to go one week without having that item as food. You from this point had more of an understanding of allocation of resources etc.

Life is made up of thousands of seemingly inconsequential events like this - which ones make you the person you are and which ones can be deleted to no effect? I damn well know i wouldn't want to be the one to hit the delete key on anything important.

As far as adding features, wouldn't that take you even further away from what makes you you? Where or who do the new features come from? It seems a quick step to throw in a touch of confidence - but how much is too much - all of a sudden you could be a total asshole, but still perceive yourself to be the nice person you used to be (not that i am personally ever going to be considered the nicest person in the world - not even the top 10 million).

My comments about age were more to the point that you become jaded. Not that you become defective with age. Saving a person at 50 that goes on to live another 30 years, would miss a lot, just the fact that you would be 30 years out of touch - if you only implant after your first physical body has terminated.

It is going on 1:30 AM and i am way too tired to even think clearly right now, so excuse me if this is a mindless mess of stupidity.