[ExI] Royal Pardon for Alan Turing

Anders Sandberg anders at aleph.se
Tue Dec 24 10:34:50 UTC 2013


On 2013-12-24 09:59, Will Steinberg wrote:
> Bit late for that.

I wonder, should we now pardon Oscar Wilde next? And after that, the 
various wives of Henry VIII?

Pardons are problematic in a lot of ways. I wrote about it last year:
http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2012/12/sui-generis-or-generic-gay-pardoning-alan-turing/


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Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University




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