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Dead people cannot be wronged. When someone dies, all obligations to that person are invalidated.
by sneak 3y ago
Dead people cannot be wronged. When someone dies, all obligations to that person are invalidated.
- sanitycheck 3y agoUh-huh. So it might be OK to, for example, construct an animatronic human centipede out of fresh corpses? Or perhaps not?
- rightbyte 3y agoPromises are promises. The only fair argument the heirs could do is to claim the father didn't understand his decision to not wanting to publish the script.
- sneak 3y agoPromises to non-entities aren’t promises anymore.
- Aeolun 3y agoYes, but if there’s only one party that can be wronged by breaking the promise (e.g. feeling bad you broke a promise to your dead father), it becomes a bit different. Sure, most people would feel terrible about doing that. But you would keep that promise out of respect, not because the dead are hurt by breaking it.