From a legal perspective, the you of today is the same individual as the you of ten years in the future. And the you of today is perfectly capable of making binding decisions affecting future you, so my question is, why not vice versa.
Or if you want to make it easier - if you could send a message back to yesterday, should you be allowed to do something legally binding on behalf of yesterday’s you?
If you have committed a crime ten years ago but only got convicted today, it’s only because you should have been convicted ten years ago. Legal system has to make this logic to keep the karma system intact. You can’t sign a contract ten years ago and forfeit it now without being punished, claiming, “It’s not me.”
From a legal perspective, the you of today is the same individual as the you of ten years in the future. And the you of today is perfectly capable of making binding decisions affecting future you, so my question is, why not vice versa.
Or if you want to make it easier - if you could send a message back to yesterday, should you be allowed to do something legally binding on behalf of yesterday’s you?
If you have committed a crime ten years ago but only got convicted today, it’s only because you should have been convicted ten years ago. Legal system has to make this logic to keep the karma system intact. You can’t sign a contract ten years ago and forfeit it now without being punished, claiming, “It’s not me.”