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> Atoms are atoms, regardless of how "advanced" they are, they're still atoms. "Killing" people (if you can call it that) is fine.

• problems 9y ago
  You're making a false equivalence of bits and atoms. An individual owns the bits on their hardware - no one owns all atoms or atoms comprising another individual. If someone has ultimate control over all the atoms in the universe, then I'd say indeed they have no moral obligation to keep you or I alive. Depending on someone else for life means their right to their own hardware is more important your right to life. The pro-choice campaign has made this argument very well if you'd like to read into it.
• vectorpush 9y ago
  Your analogy doesn't really say much except that you endorse the idea that bits and atoms are comparable with regard to the "realness" of what they compose, but that assumption is the crux of the debate. One could just as easily say "letters are letters, regardless of how advanced they are, they're still letters. 'Killing' people (if you can call it that) is fine", yet the analogy on it's own fails to enlighten the argument if one already rejects the idea that people composed of text in a work of fiction are real.