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Comment author: timtyler 27 June 2010 08:05:09AM *  2 points [-]

The usual idea of a "backup" is that it can be used to restore from if the "original" is lost or damaged. Everett worlds are not "backups" in that sense of the word. If a quantum grenade kills someone, their grieving wife and daughters are not consoled much by the fact that - in other Everett worlds - the bomb did not go off. The supposed "backups" are inaccessible to them.