History Headscratchers / Surrogates

** Not quite. As explained above, nobody can convict him of anything, because nobody can testify with certainty that he wilfully caused the surrogates to be destroyed. For all the techie knew he just thought a bit too long and was about to hit Y, like every good citizen would, when he was shot by the cop.

** All of the above.

*** Nobody sees him press N, though. From the tech and everyone else's point of view, he just thought about it for a while and was about to hit Y when the cop shot him. For everyone else, his fault is just thinking a bit too long... the real fault is of the cop who shot him. Or at least, that's what I'd tell the world were I in his place, to avoid rotting in jail for the rest of my days. Though the guilt at causing worldwide devastation of untold scale ''might'' be a bit hard to bear.

*** There were lots of replacement hands and faces on display in the beauty salon, so presumably someone who's into cosplay could swap out some of their surrogate's external coverings when they want to dress up. We don't see people looking like that on the street, because most of the movie takes place in the business district where you wouldn't see furries hanging out with the suits, any more than you'd see Goths there in real life.

** If they're independent, that's even worse. Assualt on a foreign police agent is outright agression against the U.S., and it seems the Government would want to take any chance it could to reasimilate the settlement.

** Estimates of the cost to deploy a single soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan range from $500,000 to over a million dollars per year. Plus, if that soldier gets injured or dies, then the government pays for a lifetime of health care or death benefits for the soldier's family. You can ship and house an entire platoon's worth of expendable surrogates in a shipping crate, they don't eat, don't get sick, don't feel fear, don't suffer PTSD and if one goes down there's always a replacement. Sounds cost-effective to me.

** It's moral degeneration. People stop being responsible for many of their actions and forfeit "natural" living in favor of a simulated exisence. Essentially, it's pushing a premature [[TheSingularity singularity]] of an [[TheWorldIsNotReady immature world]].

** It's moral degeneration. People stop being responsible for many of their actions and forfeit "natural" living in favor of a simulated exisence. Essentially, it's pushing a premature {{Singularity}} of an [[TheWorldIsNotReady immature world]].

* So, what crime would Greer be convicted of? Vandalism? Sabotage? Gross criminal negligence?

* You know, when I think about it, the movie is actually promoting older views being imposed on everyone. Concerting that I'm a gamer atheist socialist that bugs me x3 due to the fact that all 3 are groups a large part of some older generations want dead.
** That's not a plot hole. Or fridge logic.
*** Maybe it's something [[JustBugsMe that just bothers]] him or her.

* Others have touched on it but I'm going to state it outright. Its the all or nothing nature of Surrogate use. Not just the timeframe, which is unrealistic enough, but there are basically only three viewpoints portrayed in the movie. Surrogate for everything but eating and using the bathroom, {{Ludd Was Right}} and the computer tech who is viewed as an eccentric weirdo who avoids being a pariah because he possess valuable skills. There's no one who uses a Surrogate most of the time but occasionally likes to get out and engage in their hobby sans Surrogate, or alternately someone who spends most of their time ''au naturale'' but uses a Surrogate for things like extreme sports for safety/practicality reasons. Or to boil it down there are no shades of grey.