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Originally Posted by sir_pudding
I still really don't understand the argument that this legal fiction is implausible; can someone (Flyndaran?) who finds it so please explain why?
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a) Logic. Uploading may be destructive today, but what about tomorrow when it is no longer ? Do we then have the same person twice ?
b) Greed. Everybody who hopes to ever inherit anything and every state that charges inheritance tax has an interest in treating it as death, plus the creation of somebody new.