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From att!cs.sfu.ca!miron Tue Apr 23 04:46:49 EDT 1991
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Date: 23 Apr 91  1:14 -0700
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Subject: Re: cryonics #312 - Re: Motivation for Reanimation

On Apr 22, 23:04, Eric Klien wrote:
} "Withholding action should never be considered criminal."
}  
} Oh really?  If you have kids, stop feeding them and see if you get
} into legal trouble.  Even starving pets could get you in deep trouble.

Let me first clarify that I was referring to objective justice and not
to the current legal state.

One may have an obligation to feed one's children because one created
their dependence.  Pets don't have rights and therefore there is no
moral obligation not to starve them.

In any case, there is no moral obligation to reanimate a person.  The
only exceptions are a contract or a forced suspension.

I suggest that a contract should be used to ensure one's reanimation.

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	Miron Cuperman <>

"Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
     --A.C.Clarke

 "Nanotechnology is sufficiently advanced."
     --J.S.Hall

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