On 24 April 2015 at 21:09, spudboy100 via Everything List <[email protected]> wrote: > Brussels-easy. You violated the law against murder there, only to flee to > NYC. Like boarding a plane to NYC except quicker. Let us say a child > molester, attacks a young child in Brussel's and then teleports to NYC to > escape. Whilst in NYC the molester from Brussels molests two other young > children before he is captured. At this point should we hear the NYC > Molester saying. "That was not me! The Brussels molester died whilst in > teleporting (by necessity). At this point should a jury even care? > > It does get fun if 300 versions of Stalin are produced, and only 298 of the > clones commit mass murder post teleporting. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> > To: everything-list <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, Apr 23, 2015 6:15 pm > Subject: crime and duplication machines > > My suspicion is that "personal identity" is a human concept that is evolved > mainly to enforce social norms, and that it only works until technologies > like duplication machines or mind uploading are created. To illustrate this, > I propose a dilemma: > > Let's assume I murder someone and then get scanned in Brussels, and > reconstructed in Washington. Who should go to jail? > > What if I am destroyed in Brussels and reconstructed in Washington and > Moscow?
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