CIKITSAKA: I know the morality here seems shaky. The Diversity Engineering Institute's board deliberated for a long time on the application of this new technology.
CIKITSAKA: We finally resolved that the ability to back up and restore a human mind, or the mind of any sophont, does not cheapen our lives. It is an expression of how very precious those lives are.
CIKITSAKA: Of course, if the system has been hacked, and somebody else is in Binnie's head, his life is now in a devaluation spiral you could pull corks with.