MetaChat - 'A man would not be able to shorten human life but a machine can.'

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08 December 2005

'A man would not be able to shorten human life but a machine can.' You can't kill a person, but you can set a timer that allows a machine to count down to.. oh, I don't know... could you go flip the, ahhh... Well, it's on the wall with the breaker, next to the....

post by: rebirtha at: 02:26 | 4 comments

On a related theme: Jack Kevorkian's health has worsened.

posted by arse_hat 08 December | 03:20

People don't kill people, machines kill people.

posted by Cryptical Envelopment 08 December | 04:24

Yeah, I don't think I'll ever understand orthodox Jews - or any other believers - using stuff like this to work around the demands of their own self-imposed religion. Come join us in the swimming pool of agnotism/atheism. It's lovely and warm!

posted by flopsy 08 December | 11:20

For whatever reasons (beer surplus in body) the main reason I, last night, thought of bringing this piece of news to MetaChat was so I could make that 'joke' about having to get the person to reset the death-switch. Now, of course, I can consider the implications of being able to start a machine that kills people but not to kill them with your own murderous hands.

posted by rebirtha 08 December | 12:40

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