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Comment author: Transfuturist 11 February 2015 09:43:25AM *  2 points [-]

If Stephen Hawking were capable and willing of turning the visible universe into copies of himself, I would want to keep him boxed too. At a certain level of risk it is no longer a matter of justice, but a matter of survival of the human species, and likely all other species, sapient or otherwise.

EDIT: To make it clearer, I also think it is "Just" to box a sentient entity to prevent a measure of disutility to an as-of-yet undetermined utility function approximating CEV.