If one is opposed to confinement in a cage for nonviolent crimes, then why should one go to jail for contempt? That's a non-violent crime too.

But on slashdot, perfection is encouraged... and nothing less is tolerated. You have a 6-digit sid.... don't you know that by now?

One can approve of caning as punishment for particular crimes without themselves being guilty of the crime for which they would approve of the caning, nor even particularly "like" caning overall, but believe in the premise that it might stand as one of the most effective means of preventing a repeat offense without simply executing the person. The most effective means of preventing a repeat offense that does not involve execution is when the violator genuinely repents of the crime, but this is something only the person themselves can control... it is not possible to directly induce it or bring it about, although it can sometimes be achieved indirectly by whatever discomfort the criminal might be made to experience from the punishment for their crime, which is probably the single strongest argument that may exist for supporting punishments like caning for particular crimes.

So I take it that you believe that people who commit tax fraud should not go to jail either?

Citation needed. The offence is "possession," not "viewing."

Actually, the offense is any of taking, making, distributing, showing, or possessing. Merely viewing such pornography, when it is done with intent (ie, you clicked play on a video where you could have reasonably known its contents before you watched it), would constitute a form of "taking".

Not all types of teleportation necessarily involve creating a copy.... quantum teleportation, most notably.

Since society wouldn't allow it to happen to humans...

Today's society... with today's moral values. Who knows what things might be like in a hundred years?

I'm not sure what your point is.

Not necessarily true.... somes sites on the internet are not of general interest to enough people to ever draw the attention of somebody who might even want to hack it.

Obviously... but the parent that I responded to was talking about cloning as it's portrayed in the movie "6th Day"

That would probably be the subject of said science fiction story. If I were writing it, I would say it is gone... completely overwritten by the mind that overwrote it. There could be all kinds of ethical issues we might have with this sort of thing today... but those kinds of issues often make some of the best stories, allowing us to safely examine through the lens of a work of fiction at just what kinds of atrocities the darker side of human nature might be capable of, and possibly giving us a greater respect for life, today, than we otherwise might have had.

Who knows? I did say it was probably the stuff of science FICTION....

Other than the fact that your clone is the same age as you are.... and would have all of the same physical health problems, sure.

.... is the ability to transfer one person's mind into another body... then all you need to do is keep transferring your mind into a younger body as the one you currently have breaks down.

Although that sounds vaguely like the premise of some sort of science fiction story that looks at inequalities between classes.

It's especially ironic because in Britain, they actually use the metric system.