From: gts (gts@optexinc.com)
Date: Wed Oct 30 2002 - 11:50:43 MST
Dan Fabulich wrote:
> gts wrote:
> > Similarly, a fork "born" of legal age would decide for himself whether
> > or not to do your bidding. If you coerced him to act unlawfully then you
> > would be guilty of extortion or worse.
>
> It would be no coercion. Imagine an insane serial murderer who made a
> copy of himself whenever he intended to kill someone; he'd kill his
> victim, then kill himself.
I don't see how this would result in an increase in the murder rate.
Statistically the situation would be identical to that of catching a serial
murderer who did not suicide after each murder. And it would be easier to
apprehend such an insane murder-suicide killer because we would know exactly
what he looked like.
The only difference might be in how we investigate and prosecute: unless we
caught a copy in the act of murder before he suicided, we would be forced to
gather evidence and charge the apprehended copy with intent to commit murder
(since only his past suicided copies actually commited murders). The laws
would simply need be modified to make the penalty for such a serial murder
scheme as stiff as they are for conventional cases of serial murder. The
last copy would hang.
-gts
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