MATRIX: Movie inspires murderers???

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 08:26:30 MDT

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    http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,958840,00.html

    The Guardian reports that there are a number of murders being committed
    by individuals who either believe, or claim they believe, that they are
    living in The Matrix. This is apparently a new sort of insanity
    defense. If you believe that your victims are not real, are you
    responsible for their deaths??

    This touches on a debate we had here a while back about whether killing
    simulated people is wrong.

    One thing left out is that even in the movie, if you kill a person in
    the Matrix, their real body dies in its pod, wherever it is.

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