# Versed, the Persistence of Memory, and Assault

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**Created:** [April 17, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/versed-the-persistence-of-memory-and-assault/832674 "2019-04-17T13:27:01Z")\
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Way I see it:  
I didn’t really suffer, because I’m just my continuity and that’s been erased. Knowledge of that erasure is itself a trauma, but in this case it’s one I consent to, so OK.  
HOWEVER  
A temporary\* but fully sentient _person was made to feel torturous pain and anguish,_ and then erased from existence\*. For my and the doctors’ convenience. And I don’t consider that ethical. It wouldn’t be ethical if we created a temporary clone of me, with my memories, to suffer my pain with some sort of pain-transfer machine, and then we destroyed it, would it? Why is it ethical if the “clone” is in the same body?

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