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Human life and children in particular are also much more valuable than data.

Yes. Exactly. But if we could recover them from backups, they would be just about the same.

That depends on what the kidnappers do with their copy of the brain. I wouldn’t be happy if there was a copy of me forced to listen to Coldplay 24/7.

It is an example, I am not comparing children with data.