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Identity

If a man/woman kills someone and gets in an accident then gets amnesia is the person still accountable for their past actions on the grounds that they're a "new person," because they have no traits of old self?
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March 7, 2013

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Oliver Leaman
March 8, 2013 (changed March 8, 2013) Permalink

Certainly. I now responding to your question but if, as may happen, I forget what I have said, it does not mean I am not responsible for what I have written.

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