Jeroen wrote:
>
> Nevertheless, I am stuck with one question. A
> sentient computer program is not a physical entity;
> it can only "live" as a number of ones
> and zeroes inside a computer's memory banks.
> How could one torture such a non-physical entity?
>
Causing unnecessary pain to any sentient being
is IMHO evil. If the sentient computer program
can feel pain, than torturing it is evil.
Heinlein's definition of evil stops here. I would
add a more Brinesque definition of evil, because
denying such sentient being the full potential
to iteract with the real world is evil.
Alberto Monteiro
