<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Lee Corbin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
While I'd never phrase it that way, yes, I do agree that people should have "the right" to decide, much in the<br>
way that people ought to be free to kill themselves (under<br>
suitable protocols) if they wish.</blockquote><div><br>Once more, what harm exactly a non-destructive "upload" would inflict on them or their freedom to self-determination, suicide included? This would not prevent them in the least to go out and shoot themselves in the head.<br>
<br>Would we be denying them a hypothetical "right to oblivion"? But would we be ready to require that, say, a biographer should be authorised by the individual concerned to conserve or reconstruct information concerning the same? Because it is a just matter of quantity and accuracy of the information collected and reorganised, not really of nature.<br>
<br>Stefano Vaj<br></div></div></div>