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Lets say you could take someone's remains and boot them up in a laptop and peruse all their memories from when they were living. Accept for a minute this piece
by vasco 3y ago
Lets say you could take someone's remains and boot them up in a laptop and peruse all their memories from when they were living. Accept for a minute this piece of science fiction, but let's say the technology was there, it would just be about respecting or not the dead person's privacy. The ethics to me sound similar, if wishes are clearly known or can be inferred by a standard of reasonableness (like in the case of memories), I think the person's privacy trumps society's curiosity.
- freedomben 3y agoThanks this is a great thought experiment! It does seem like a great reductio ad absurdum since the collection of papers/correspondence is merely a subset of the life's worth of memories. I find myself being repulsed at this intrusion/invasion of privacy, so I am (as I suspected) very torn and inconsistent on this one.
- vonjuice 3y agoI think more than curiosity, in a case like this, it's the matter of the artistic merit. I don't think the sons would have published this if they didn't feel it was worth doing so. Good Black Mirror premise tho.