Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 22 Dec 2014, at 21:14, meekerdb wrote:
On 12/22/2014 4:43 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 21 Dec 2014, at 20:06, meekerdb wrote:
On 12/20/2014 11:05 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote:
Most legal systems punish murder more than any other crime, and
those that have the death penalty reserve it for the worst
offenders. Most criminals know that if they threaten a person with
death they are more likely to comply than with other threats. Most
religions, in the absence of any evidence, promise an afterlife. I
think this all supports the fact that it is a common human trait
to fear oblivion, even if as John says it's just a matter of taste.
Stathis Papaioannou
It might be a common human trait to fear oblivion, but it is even
more irrational than belief in an afterlife.
Bruce
"I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for
billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not
suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."'(Mark Twain)
Would do accept to be tortured, here and now, with the promise of 1)
1000,000 $, 2) total amnesia of the torture?
But then I would have forgotten you owed me a $1,000,000.
"total amnesia" on the torture. Of course not of event preceding the
torture. I pay you in advance if you insist.
I guess you are joking.
But still, you forget to answer.
A quasi (comp) equivalent question is the following one. I pay you
1000,000 $ if you accept to be duplicated, and the copy will be tortured
to death. I let you introduce delays if it give you the feeling it is
less risky, but oif course if you said yes to step 4 you know this is an
illusion.
Should we made such transaction illegal?
It would seem to be a problem that if one entered into such an
arrangement one would, in effect, be complicit in, or at least
condoning, torture. And that is immoral, illegal even.
Bruce
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