Given the choice between resurrecting Hitler and resurrecting and random cryonically person, who would you choose? There may be compelling reasons to choose Hitler-maybe we are in need of some information which Hitler knew-but the probability that the random person was more bad than Hitler is extremely low, a proposition I can make in the absence of a rigid definition of badness.
Nevertheless, this is an edge case-I would need a very compelling case about preservation of resources to even consider the question of who we should save, much less advocate preserving one person over another.
The Enterprise crew revived Khan without knowing he had been a war criminal in the past. The historical records on that war were incomplete and could have given them no warning of who they were reviving.
The historical records on that war were incomplete
Historical records on nearly any war are incomplete. War crimes of the winning side are seldomly documented well.
Why do you think the having been a war criminal in the past is good evidence that an individual would cause harm? It’s very unlikely that an individual who get’s revived is in a position to get a lot of political power.
Given the choice between resurrecting Hitler and resurrecting and random cryonically person, who would you choose? There may be compelling reasons to choose Hitler-maybe we are in need of some information which Hitler knew-but the probability that the random person was more bad than Hitler is extremely low, a proposition I can make in the absence of a rigid definition of badness. Nevertheless, this is an edge case-I would need a very compelling case about preservation of resources to even consider the question of who we should save, much less advocate preserving one person over another.
I think any society advanced enough to do cryonical revival won’t have to do random resurrections. They can analyse the bodies.
Information can be lost across generations. I know this is fictional evidence, but the “unfreezing Khan” scenario is a possibility.
I don’t know excatly to what “unfreezing Khan” scenario refers.
A body itself has to hold information to be revived.
The Enterprise crew revived Khan without knowing he had been a war criminal in the past. The historical records on that war were incomplete and could have given them no warning of who they were reviving.
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Historical records on nearly any war are incomplete. War crimes of the winning side are seldomly documented well.
Why do you think the having been a war criminal in the past is good evidence that an individual would cause harm? It’s very unlikely that an individual who get’s revived is in a position to get a lot of political power.