Agreed that bullets can take life in morally justifiable ways.
I'm not sure what you're responding to, but I'm pretty sure it's something I didn't say.
Your original comment implied an analogy between disassembling the team implementing TheChineseDave on the one hand, and a bullet in your brain. I replied that the implicit analogy fails, because disassembling the team implementing TheChineseDave frees up a bunch of people to live their lives, whereas a bullet in your brain does not do so.
What you seem to be saying is that yes, that's true, but the analogy doesn't fail because that difference between the two systems isn't relevant to whatever point it is you were trying to make in the original comment.
Which may well be true... I'm not quite sure what point you were making, since you left that implicit as well.
My point was, "I don't see any way in which it is not 'killing', and I think turning the question around makes this clearer." A bullet in my brain doesn't destroy most of my constituent parts (all of my constituent atoms are preserved, nearly all of my constituent molecules and cells are preserved), but destroys the organization. Destroying that organization is taking a life, whether the organization is made up of cells or people or bits, and I expect it to be morally relevant outside extremely unusual circumstances (making a backup and then im...
Suppose I have choice between the following:
A) One simulation of me is run for me 100 years, before being deleted.
B) Two identical simulations of me are run for 100 years, before being deleted.
Is the second choice preferable to the first? Should I be willing to pay more to have multiple copies of me simulated, even if those copies will have the exact same experiences?
Forgive me if this question has been answered before. I have Googled to no avail.