>in order to mistreat 2, 3, or 4, you would have to first mistreat 1
What about deleting all evidence of 1 ever having happened, after it was recorded? 1 hasn’t been mistreated, but depending on your assumptions re:consciousness, 2, 3 and 4 may have.
>in order to mistreat 2, 3, or 4, you would have to first mistreat 1
What about deleting all evidence of 1 ever having happened, after it was recorded? 1 hasn’t been mistreated, but depending on your assumptions re:consciousness, 2, 3 and 4 may have.
Huh? That sounds like some 1984 logic right there. You deleted all evidence of the mistreatment after it happened, therefore it never happened?