Clone IOUs?

So anyways I just watched Smallville S9 ep 7 and the show brought up this point. You owe someone a favor and you both die and then are cloned. Question is does your clone owe the other's clone a favor? Clones retain all memory of originals' existences.

No. Why would they?

No, but they would probably feel the obligation.

by "retain memories" do you mean they think and feel exactly as the original did, or do they know they are a clone and that there memories aren't their own?

Both Clone Zod and Clone Jor-El seemed to act and think exactly like their counter-parts. They knew they were clones, but referred to it more as a resurrection. Also retained memories were only up to the point at which the DNA that they were cloned from was taken.

So neither of them knew of the IOU that their progenitors' created? Then no, of course not. But if they did, and if they viewed their existence as a "resurrection", then yeah they probably would.

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
So neither of them knew of the IOU that their progenitors' created? Then no, of course not. But if they did, and if they viewed their existence as a "resurrection", then yeah they probably would.

They both knew. Original Zod saved original Jor-El's life. Now Clone Zod wants something from Clone Jor-El.

If a clone has no individual rights, but only the rights of the original person, then any contracts held by the original person would fall to the clone. This would be have to be true for property and identity. If the clone was considered to be an inheritor of the original person, and not the original person, then the contract would end at the death of the original. However, there could be conditions were the contract would have to be satisfied by the clone, but I think it would have to be spelled out.