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From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Re: Zuma to table cryonics proposal to get tougher
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:43:45 -0700

On Apr 3, 2008, at 2:00 AM, CryoNet wrote:
> The idea of people being sent into the future as a punishment for  
> crimes is
> not new, having appeared in both fiction and serious books. The
> possibilities are
>
> 1. People in the future may have better ideas about how to  
> rehabilitate them
> 2. Without all their friends around them they may be less able to  
> comit new
> crimes.

"Commit" has two "m"s in it.
>
> The latter is not beneficial to the cryonics movement, as many  
> people cite
> the lack of friends as being a reason not get cryopreserved.

If people are looking at it as a punishment, they'll
say "Serves them right, coming back friendless".
The next two jumps would be "I'll be sure to be
preserved with my family and friends", and "Better
make sure the criminals are revived without their
criminal buddies nearby".

> Neither is it
> particularly sensible, as without treatment the criminal will soon  
> find new
> friends with wihich to comit more crimes.

Who says there won't be treatment?  And who says the
society will be enough like what they left for any
crime they can think of commiting to be feasible?  A
bank robber from a century ago would be flummoxed by
alarms, much less silent alarms, bulletproof glass,
and surveillance cameras.  A criminal from this
century may be flummoxed in the future by (for
example) nanotech fabrics that protect from knife
attack, ubiquitous surveillance drones, having their
victimless crimes not be crimes any more, and having
money as they know it be entirely obsolete.

Back to treatment -- being sent to the future might
not be such a punishment after all, since the
technologies for handling antisocial behavior will
likely be both more effective and less violent.

Live long and prosper,
Kennita

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