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This post from CybrMonkey in the previous topic sums up my thoughts on Deckard (it wouldnt let me quote it for some reason):

For me, whether Deckard is a replicant is almost beside the point. He's a guy asked to do increasingly horrifying things in his job as a professional assassin until he ultimately loses his connection to humanity. This is how I read the Rachel rape scene as consistent with his character; he's been forced to dehumanize these people because of his line of work, and that serves as an ultimate example of the consequences. Roy's ending monologue finally forces him to confront what he has become.

Deckard being a replicant actually undermines this message. The whole point is that denying the humanity of the replicants made Deckard, a human, into the inhuman figure he was charged with fighting against. Basically it's a film meditation on the Nietzsche "He who fights with monsters" quote.
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