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You wouldn't know the difference, but "you" wouldn't be living at all because your unique DNA never came to be. Like I said, it was never a defence for justifying using a long removed relative's name, I just wanted to point out that yes, your parents DNA matters in who you are right now and matters in who your kids are/will be. You can't really say, I'd be the same person no matter who my father was because that's simply not true. It's all just butterfly effect - no one really knows what "could have been" but it's always inherently different than what IS. It's a little too philosophical really for me to even truely get my head around but I'm not placing any more importance on one side or the other (reality vs. "parallel universe") I'm simply stating that our conscious exists because of very delicate factors and those factors interest me enough to look upon past relative with wonder.

This message was edited 7/30/2012, 4:31 PM