It’s quite true that there’s a continuum of personality modifications between “talking to someone” and “using magic to eradicate emotions and base personality features replacing them with more convenient ones”. But even without drawing the line specifically, it’s clear that these two examples are on different sides of that line.
Well, cryonics aside, it’s actually relatively easy for most people to draw a clear line between “killed” and “not-killed”, and both of those examples seem to fall quite squarely on the “not-killed” side, as they don’t result in death.
You clearly draw your line somewhere very different to most people. You should probably at least attempt to explain what you mean by “kill” if you’re going to use it in such a non-standard way.
So did you just kill me and replace me with a version of me that had read that post? Where do we draw the line?
It’s often hard to draw a clear line.
It’s quite true that there’s a continuum of personality modifications between “talking to someone” and “using magic to eradicate emotions and base personality features replacing them with more convenient ones”. But even without drawing the line specifically, it’s clear that these two examples are on different sides of that line.
Well, cryonics aside, it’s actually relatively easy for most people to draw a clear line between “killed” and “not-killed”, and both of those examples seem to fall quite squarely on the “not-killed” side, as they don’t result in death.
You clearly draw your line somewhere very different to most people. You should probably at least attempt to explain what you mean by “kill” if you’re going to use it in such a non-standard way.