When did your life begin
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A man has a time machine. He goes back and time and secretly zaps your best friends parents gametes with ionizing radiation to make them infertile and prevent your best friend from being conceived Is this murder?
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A man has a time machine. He goes back in time and crisprs you when you are an implanted embryo to be somewhat better looking as an adult but otherwise unchanged. Is this murder?
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A man has a time machine. He goes back in time and does the crispr in the womb thing but this time makes you 1SD dumber. Is this murder
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It turns out that *you* are the product of a man with a time machine and a crispr wand. You manage to steal these devices and cast all incarnations of this man into the Beyond. If you dont now go back in time and revert the changes that led to your birth are you a murderer
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You did not murder yourself and so God has cursed you to be the new Time Man You realize now that there are many people you could crispr into existence, perhaps at the cost of other people If you do not create these people are you murdering them, you ask yourself
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You sit alone on an island, looking thoughtfully at your time machine and your crispr wand
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You ponder the responsibility that you never wanted that was the inevitable result of your power and consider throwing your tools into the sea But this too would be a choice resulting in millions of deaths or lives blinking in or out of existence
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"I do not envy you, God," you finally manage. You stare into evening sky and watch the stars rise, wondering.
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