From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 10:36:48 MST
> (Dan Fabulich <dfabulich@warpmail.net>):
> Of course, in principle, we live in *some* threat of this happening now:
> aren't we always at the trivial risk that debtors might kill themselves,
> that every murderer will just commit suicide, etc? Yes, but what makes
> this debt managable is that such actions are rare, and that, after it
> happens, there are fewer people in the world who would act this way. But
> there's good reason to think that in a world of copy-sets, such actions
> would happen a *lot*, and people who did it would *multiply*.
Now there's an original idea: serial murder-suicide! That's exactly
the kind of thing that makes the moral issues unclear. I suppose one
could treat that legally as a murder-for-hire, where the "payment" to
the dup was your act of creating him.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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