On 28 April 2015 at 12:04, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/27/2015 4:24 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 28 April 2015 at 08:58, Jason Resch <[email protected]> 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"? >> > > I think the "public safety" argument comes in here. We have very good > evidence that you are both dangerous and mentally unstable. I think we > should at least consider offering psychiatric help, and perhaps threaten > imprisonment if it's refused. > > But of course I don't know how the rest of this hypothetical SF society > functions. Maybe we keep you from being a threat by uploading you into a > computerised utopia in which your every wish is granted. > > To really make a good decision we'd have to know a lot more - which is why > we have trials. >
Of course. Having been on a jury, I do actually appreciate that. > Just from the above outline we don't even really know that the killer is > dangerous or mentally unstable. > It's a reasonable reading given the main facts - he committed a murder and then killed himself. Obviously there may be extenuating circumstances... > Maybe he murdered the guy who bullied his gay son online and caused his > son to commit suicide. > ...but that isn't actually a justification for murder. (See your first comment about why we have trials.) > Or maybe he murdered his duplicate because his duplicate stole his > identity? > Ditto, although it might make a fun plot for an SF story. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
