From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 08:03:53 MDT
From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
>I must say that I find this entire discussion extremely
>disturbing. As far as I'm concerned, pain and coercion and death
>are bad things, period, and there is nothing that can flip that
>negative to a positive. There may or may not be a place for the
>death penalty in modern society on grounds of deterrence; there is
>*no* place in *any* ethical mind for hatred. In a Sysop Scenario,
>there is no need, and therefore no place, for the death penalty -
>or mental revision, or so much as a slap across the face - for
>crimes committed pre-Sysop. (Murdering someone post-Sysop is
>impossible without explicit consent, of course.)
>> How could a sentient, caring person live with themself knowing
>>they had murdered another person? Denial? That wasn't the "real"
>>me?
>So you're basically of the "let's stake Angel" camp.
>I myself always thought that the whole guilt thing made no logical
>sense.
That particular question was strictly rhetorical. The essense of my
argument is that the death penalty is an appropriate punishment for
murder.
Brian
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