You make a rule about punishing people that will deter them from committing crimes in a
way that maximizes satisfaction in the community. I'm not sure what rules that is, but it
doesn't necessarily have to solve some philosophical problem of personal identity.
In your example, suppose society said, "No we won't punish him." Then people might be
tempted to use this as a way of killing someone they hate. So society would probably say,
"Yes, we'll punish him...and any additional copies of him too."
Brent
On 4/27/2015 1:58 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
What if you step into a delayed duplication machine, and the first one out goes and
commits murder at a later time, and then commits suicide, later the delayed duplicate of
you emerges. Do we imprison them, or would that be punishing them for a "pre-crime"?
Jason
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:19 PM, LizR <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
You should both go to jail, on the basis that both copies of you had the
same
consciousness as the person who committed the murder, and therefore you are
both
equally responsible (leaving aside considerations of free will etc)
And (this is the clincher) you are both equally a danger to society, having
had your
psychopathic tendencies duplicated means you're twice as much of a danger
as you
were when there was only one of you.
QED, "You're nicked, sunshine."
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