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Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 19:10:44 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: CryoNet #8870 - #8878

I was thinking today that cyronics and immortality aren't really the same
things.  An individual would still face the fact of existence or
non-existence even if they wished to become frozen upon de-animation.
 Immortality is really something that is indestructible.  Things like the
universe/existence/reality and matter.  As long as one has to do certain
actions to sustain one's life then they are not really indestructible.  I
think this has important implications on the field of morality.  If someone
is immortal then why would they need ethics.  Ethics being a code of values
to live one's life by and values being that which one acts to gain and/or
keep.  A immortal being wouldn't need ethics because no matter what they do
they would still be alive.  I think this is important because without the
need to live a moral life and therefore acheive happiness (emotional reward)
what would the purpose of living forever be.  Without happiness what is the
point?  Living just for living sake?

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