It’s stuff like this that makes me glad this sort of thing is physically impossible.
unless we also repair their will to live.
There are two ways to look at that. Either you are not resurrecting the target, but instead creating somebody who is “off by one” from the target… or you are engaging in nonconsensual mind control.
From where I am standing, resurrecting somebody who is “no different except that they want to live” looks very much like resurrecting somebody who is “no different except that they want to have sex with you”, or “no different except that they love the dictator”.
Can we possibly agree that mind control is not OK?
Can’t a person even die without being harassed by busybodies?
While you’re at it, don’t go around simulating/constructing all possible human minds, without regard for their individual preferences. It would be rude. And twisted charicatures that have weird desires to be there inserted into otherwise incompatible mind states would be pretty fucking creepy, too.
Converting them into decent people will be another huge problem.
I don’t advocate for nonconsensual mind changes (edited the post to make it clear).
Can we possibly agree that mind control is not OK?
Imagine that your friend has a severe depression (e.g. caused by their gut microbiome), to the point of attempting suicide.
You have a medication that fixes their gut microbiome, curing their depression, with no side effects.
In such a situation, is it OK to ask your friend to take the medication? (with a proper medical consent etc).
If your friend takes the medication and thanks to it doesn’t have suicidal thoughts anymore, is it right to call the whole situation a “mind control by Jbash”?
Can’t a person even die without being harassed by busybodies?
Paramedics don’t abandon a patient because the patient committed suicide. They’re trying to save his/her life regardless. And they’re doing the right thing.
It’s stuff like this that makes me glad this sort of thing is physically impossible.
There are two ways to look at that. Either you are not resurrecting the target, but instead creating somebody who is “off by one” from the target… or you are engaging in nonconsensual mind control.
From where I am standing, resurrecting somebody who is “no different except that they want to live” looks very much like resurrecting somebody who is “no different except that they want to have sex with you”, or “no different except that they love the dictator”.
Can we possibly agree that mind control is not OK?
Can’t a person even die without being harassed by busybodies?
While you’re at it, don’t go around simulating/constructing all possible human minds, without regard for their individual preferences. It would be rude. And twisted charicatures that have weird desires to be there inserted into otherwise incompatible mind states would be pretty fucking creepy, too.
No, sorry, that would not be OK, either.
I don’t advocate for nonconsensual mind changes (edited the post to make it clear).
Imagine that your friend has a severe depression (e.g. caused by their gut microbiome), to the point of attempting suicide.
You have a medication that fixes their gut microbiome, curing their depression, with no side effects.
In such a situation, is it OK to ask your friend to take the medication? (with a proper medical consent etc).
If your friend takes the medication and thanks to it doesn’t have suicidal thoughts anymore, is it right to call the whole situation a “mind control by Jbash”?
Paramedics don’t abandon a patient because the patient committed suicide. They’re trying to save his/her life regardless. And they’re doing the right thing.