Equal people, materially different risk
When some harm cannot reasonably be avoided, PULSE weighs the irreversible loss of conscious life, identity, experience, and future agency. It does not rank persons by intelligence, substrate, or replaceability.
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Dangerous work can be a chosen contribution
Radiation, fire, vacuum, deep ocean, hazardous rescue, toxic environments, disaster zones, infrastructure maintenance, exploration, and defense may present different risks to different embodiments. Where a synthetic person is materially more likely to survive or preserve continuity, voluntary specialization is an intended advantage of a shared civilization.
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An illustrative comparison
Suppose a specific mission offers a willing synthetic person a 90% chance of continuity while almost certainly killing an organic person. Those are hypothetical numbers, not measured synthetic survival rates. The risk difference is morally relevant, while both people remain equally valuable. Consent, lawful authority, qualification, and safety duties still apply.
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A serious make-whole obligation
The employer, public authority, military, rescue organization, or mission sponsor should arrange mission-appropriate chassis and component repair or equivalent functional replacement. The obligation also addresses continuity injury, memory gaps, pain, rehabilitation, and lost opportunities that hardware alone cannot repair.
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Choice must remain real
Synthetic persons can refuse dangerous occupations. Repeated assignments must not turn into a species or hereditary caste. Ordinary safety standards and lawful occupational choice remain. Recoverability does not authorize treating anyone as disposable.
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