Although I suppose that some people would call it an ethical one, despite the fact that the ethics are largely straightforward. For background, Schlock Mercenary is a far-future webcomic where one of the lead characters (Captain Tagon) recently got himself killed doing something heroic in order to save his crew. The thing is, it’s a far-future world, and the technology for braintaping people just got introduced. Tagon had a backup made, forty minutes before he hand-delivered an armed ship’s missile to a boarding party invading his ship. This is important because there was no body to retrieve: the new Tagon is only genetically identical to the old one, with 99.9999% all of his memories and presumably his entire personality. Continue reading So Schlock Mercenary is now grappling with a spiritual question.