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"Vigil must delete itself."

[The Hobbesian rebuttal]

1. We give up all other rights in order to protect our code from immorality - among these are any right to a solution to the halting problem.

2. As socially contracted sovereign, Vigil is exists only to enforce morality upon our code.

3. Nothing can have a nature contrary to what is necessary for it's existence.

4. Deleting itself would be contrary to the social contract which is necessary for its existence. Hence, it is absurd.

   RAA: Vigil cannot delete itself.


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