To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com
From: DarkHrzn91701{at}aol.com
Reply-To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com

In a message dated 6/18/03 1:07:41 PM CDT Jay Hailey writes:

> Why?  if someone walks five ste0ps away from the
> transporter and gets killed you can't bring them backl,.
> if you're going to back up people,  I see no reason to limit it.

Because it makes the life of the "individual" worthless.

Imagine...

Crewman X steps out of the transporter, someone who hates his guts blows
his brains out.  No problem, run off another copy.

Or Crewman X gets hit by a bus, eaten by a lion, or falls into a wood
chipper.  Again, no problem, run off another copy.

In the end, we don't worry about anyone dying, the pain they experience or
anything else.  We feel no moral compulsion against causing death or pain
because we can always run the tape back and produce another copy of the
person.

-Michael Gray
Star Trek: Dark Horizon
http://hometown.aol.com/darkhrzn91701/main.htm

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