In a world with arbitrary forking of minds, people who won’t willingly fork will become a minority. That’s all I was implying. I made no statement about what “should” happen.
Destroying an elderly person means destroying the line of their existence and extinguishing all their memories. Destroying a copy means destroying whatever memories it formed since forking and ending a “duplicate” consciousness.
Surely there is a difference in kind here. Deleting a copy of a person because it is no longer useful is very different from deleting the LAST existing copy of a person for any reason.
In a world with arbitrary forking of minds, people who won’t willingly fork will become a minority. That’s all I was implying. I made no statement about what “should” happen.
I was just taking that reasoning to the logical conclusion—it applies just as well to the non productive elderly as it does to unneeded copies.
Destroying an elderly person means destroying the line of their existence and extinguishing all their memories. Destroying a copy means destroying whatever memories it formed since forking and ending a “duplicate” consciousness.
See you think that memories are somehow relevant to this conversation. I don’t.
Surely there is a difference in kind here. Deleting a copy of a person because it is no longer useful is very different from deleting the LAST existing copy of a person for any reason.
I see no such distinction. Murder is murder.