X-Message-Number: 29037 Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:37:18 -0600 From: Subject: The Murderer's Price for Freedom References: <> 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. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=29037