X-Message-Number: 314 From att!cs.sfu.ca!miron Tue Apr 23 04:46:49 EDT 1991 From: <> Date: 23 Apr 91 1:14 -0700 To: Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <"" <>> Message-Id: <> 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. ---- Miron Cuperman <> "Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." --A.C.Clarke "Nanotechnology is sufficiently advanced." --J.S.Hall Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=314