You know, you're right. That was a bit of a non sequitur.

Back to the original point, I think I'm starting to chang my mind about the equivalence between a wirehead and a number (insert disclaimer about how everything is a number): after all, I'd feel worse about killing one than tilting an abacus.

Maybe "But I don't want to spend a lot of time doing something so simple" would work for version 3.0