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Laukev7:
Not to rain on your parade, but it would not only ruin the capitalistic system, I'm afraid.

You should not forget that we need substance to transform to duplicate matter. One way or another, we would need a system to limit the use of such an invention, or we might end up transfoming the whole planet. If six billion people started reproducing matter, this would happen in no time.

Stryker:

quote:Originally posted by Laukev7:
Not to rain on your parade, but it would not only ruin the capitalistic system, I'm afraid.

You should not forget that we need substance to transform to duplicate matter. One way or another, we would need a system to limit the use of such an invention, or we might end up transfoming the whole planet. If six billion people started reproducing matter, this would happen in no time.
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So you are running on the fear that we will run out of mass storage devices?

Laukev7:

quote: So you are running on the fear that we will run out of mass storage devices?
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That was not the point I was making. I was questioning the technical merits of a matter duplicator, which is an entirely different point than the ethics of that practice.

Stryker:
We can turn matter into energy (burning it) why can't we be authorized to do the opposite?

Laukev7:

quote: We can turn matter into energy (burning it) why can't we be authorized to do the opposite?
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I already said that I was discussing the technical implications of such a practice (at least for now).

And one is only authorised to burn what belongs to him.

If you must know, if such a device was implemented, we couldn't be certain anymore that we should be authorised to transform a piece of vital ressource (our planet) without a very long debate on that issue.

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