So the value of the person is entirely in his/her usefulness to the society?
Not entirely. But it certainly trumps a person’s “badness” in my opinion.
Well, the problem we are discussing assumes that you do NOT have access to much data (certainly not their rap sheet or the lack thereof) about the frozen people—their name and whether their contemporaries thought them “good” or “bad” is all you have.
If the civilization reawakening them is capable of calculating an Expected Value for each person based only on their DNA (and other information contained in the body, such as irreversible injuries) which is more accurate than moral differences between the society which froze them and the society which may awaken them, then the moral judgements of the originating society are probably useless.
Not entirely. But it certainly trumps a person’s “badness” in my opinion.
If the civilization reawakening them is capable of calculating an Expected Value for each person based only on their DNA (and other information contained in the body, such as irreversible injuries) which is more accurate than moral differences between the society which froze them and the society which may awaken them, then the moral judgements of the originating society are probably useless.