On 4/24/2015 7:46 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
Well, not only is the concept of personal identity, problematic, so is the concept of guilt and free will. If I kill someone and I did it because of the way I was born and the way my environment was it's not my fault, and if I did it due to randomness it's not my fault. So the practical solution to questions of crime and punishment is to do what will deter crime. In particular, people should be deterred from using copying and memory transfer to commit crimes and avoid punishment.
Right. All the talk about guilt and free will and what God commands and who's responsible are human inventions to control and order societies that grew beyond extended families.
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