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human
[Altered Carbon season 2] Why is double sleeving not only illegal, but highly illegal?

I understand why the Protectorate doesn't want anyone to have their own army of like minded individual just through sleeving themselves again and again. I mean, I sort of do.

But why is it such a taboo? >!Why, during season 2, when Kovatch meets Kovatch, he tells himself they'll rd them for double sleeving? Kovatch is at this point a member of the wedge, at the top of the Protectorate pyramid of power and secrecy.!<

Surely someone like that would be above such petty crime as double sleeving. What makes it so taboo, that even at the top of the Protectorate, it's still forbidden? Why doesn't the Protectorate allow itself to make copies of its best soldiers, engineers and scientists?
gpt
1] Just because it's 'highly illegal' doesn't mean it doesn't happen.  If there's a word for it, someone is doing it.

2] It's a legal nightmare.  Married lady doubles, who is her husband?  Who is the real mother?  Not even getting into finance.

3] Crime.  An assassin doubles, sends himself out to do a murder, then unsleeves.  Who is guilty?

For a mild taste of how bad it can get, look at the legal fight against VCR's back in the day.