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Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:37:18 -0600
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Subject: The Murderer's Price for Freedom
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My answer to Tiffany would be "Yes, provided you are not forced to 
drink the beer"!

This stems from Eivind Berge's concern about the possibility of the 
state to "manipulate a person's personality and ideology by
technological means".  Granted, that could happen, and probably would 
in some countries.  Nothing in anything I said should, though, be 
construed to mean that I advocate the involuntary administration of 
corrective chemical treatment of psychiatric disorders.  I did not 
address the issue of voluntary/involuntary.  I will do so now by the following:

If a murderer is convicted, he could be incarcerated until and unless 
he is willing to take the treatment in order to gain freedom.  If a 
murderer desires cryonic preservation and reanimation, a condition 
could be the signing of permission for the treatment to be 
administered upon reanimation.  Both scenarios assume, of course that 
the treatment is available, which of course it presently is not.

Of course some would say those scenarios are coercive also - a rather 
dark view, but some would say it.  Dark because the alternative for 
the living murderer is either incarceration, or just let him go free 
to murder again.  For the deanimated murderer the alternative is 
either to allow permanent death by withholding cryopreservation (or 
cryopreserve, reanimate and incarcerate!), or to cryopreserve and 
reanimate him and let him go free to murder again.  In each scenario 
one alternative is even worse than giving him a way out thru 
treatment, and the other irresponsibly creates a threat to the safety 
of everyone else. 

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