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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:21:00 -0600
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Subject: Cryonic Capital Punishment Is No Less Murder
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John B. Krug said:  "It seems reasonable to me that once someone is 
judged beyond any doubt to be guilty of  murder or genocide, that 
person is certainly ineligible for cryopreservation...In fact, I 
foresee a time in most countries when there will be stipulated 
clauses within future death warrants ordering mandatory cremation in 
such capital cases..."

This is no different from the socially-retarded capital punishment 
mentality prevalent in the USA (but no longer,  in more advanced 
Western countries), extrapolated to a cryonics scenario.

It is primitive, savage, revengeful, eye-for-an-eye type 
thinking.  It is also gradually becoming out of date, as medical 
technologies evolve to find the chemical source of deviant behaviors 
and solutions for them.  This is already well on its way, and cures 
for things like manic homicidal tendencies will most likely be 
available long before the time any cryopatients are reanimated.  They 
will then be able to be cured of that, as well as what ordinary 
malady caused their temporary death.

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