Beam Me(?) to Mars!
Consider the following new technology:For Stelios, the teletransporter is the only way to travel. Previously it took months to get from the Earth to Mars, confined to a cramped spacecraft with a far from perfect safety record. Stelios’s TeletransportExpress changed all that. Now the trip takes just minutes, and so far it has been 100 percent safe.However, now he is facing a lawsuit from a disgruntled customer who is claiming the company actually killed him. His argument is simple: the teletransporter works by scanning your brain and body cell by cell, destroying them, beaming the information to Mars and reconstructing you there. Although the person on Mars looks, feels and thinks just like a person who has been sent to sleep and zapped across space, the claimant argues that what actually happens is that you are murdered and replaced by a clone.To Stelios, this sounds absurd. After all, he has taken the teletransporter trip dozens of times and he doesn’t feel dead. Indeed, how can the claimant seriously believe that he has been killed by the process when he is clearly able to take the case to court?Still, as Stelios entered the teletransporter booth once again and prepared to press the button that would begin to dismantle him, he did, for a second, wonder whether he was about to commit suicide …–From Baggini, J. 2005. ”The Pig that Wants to be Eaten: 100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher.” London: Penguin Group.Suppose you are the judge in the court case resulting from this lawsuit. You have to decide whether to find for the plaintiff or TeletransportExpress. What would your judgment be, and why? Now, being a careful judge who is well aware of the possibility of an appeal of your decision no matter which way you decide, you want to be sure to anticipate all of the counter-arguments which might be posed against the arguments you’ve given for your judgment. In light of the exotic and difficult nature of this case, what counter-arguments should you consider, and what should you say in response to them in writing your judgment?
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