From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon May 06 2002 - 21:34:34 MDT
Reason wrote:
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> I would consider it eminently reasonably that this be the case until said
> children can pass Turing tests. One of the things you're dancing around here
> is the morality and legality of considering harm to potential
> Turing-test-passing entities equivelant to harm to Turing-test-passing
> entities; and what defines "potential" anyway? Ones that can get there by
> themselves, or with minimal help, or only with a lot of help? Strong
> resemblances to the abortion/cloning debate and the slope that leads to it
> being unacceptable to destroy individual cells.
>
You can, of course, stop at any point on a "slippery slope" that
you consider reasonable. Slippery slopes cannot be avoided in
their entirety. Too much in life that is quite important has
some of that quality.
- samantha
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