From: QueeneMUSE@aol.com
Date: Wed Jun 02 1999 - 09:11:06 MDT
>immortality. If we acheive it, will we loose the ability to defend ourselves
with deadly force as a result?
In a possible future where we have the means to put an end to death, future
posthumans would be unlikely to call this an "ability' - but some sort of
neanderthal recession into pre-posthuman primate memes.
> If it is seen as common that all are immortal, and that immortality is some
sort of right, would not imposing death of any kind be seen as too excessive
to allow as a punishment for a crime or for a defense against a criminal in
the act. Thoughts, anyone?
OK, THOUGHTS: if the advances in medicine and extropy have given us the
ability to reanimate and/or rejuvenate living tissue, putting people to death
would hardly be a solution to any encroachment upon personal property or
bodily harm. Thought: perhaps bodily harm (if one can repair through "body
work") will be seen as *less* of a crime, or considered more of a litiganous
(SP?) one, rather than a violent one.
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