• Default_Defect@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    So if a perfect copy of you existed, you’d be okay with being executed if it were painless? The other you lives exactly as you would,

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      1 year ago

      I see no reason to execute me when I could just fuck my clone, but if there were a copy of my and a bomb was set to go off I’d chill in one perspective’s last moments.

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        1 year ago

        Couldn’t be me. Another me existing would only mean my family wouldn’t have to mourn me, but I couldn’t just accept death because of it.

          • He wouldn’t exist. A copy of him that they could not distinguish would exist. He’d be dead.

            If you say that doesn’t matter to you, fine, but I don’t think it’s hard to grasp why a lot of folks wouldn’t be OK with it, especially as a daily form of transportation.

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              If any entity that affects the world in the exact way I would is affecting the world the way I would have it affected, “I” exist.

              My dreams, memories, hopes, and desires propagate through what we call existence and there is zero difference if i was stored in a computer for a little while and or there is two of me.

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            1 year ago

            That was part of my point. It would be one less thing to worry about, my family doesn’t suffer the loss, but it doesn’t change that I wouldn’t just let myself die because of it.