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If someone sneaks a bomb into your luggage and it goes off at the airport, didn't they just hijack your body to commit a crime?



Your body wasn't hijacked, it was doing what it had already planned on doing (going to the airport). When your computer is hijacked, it is actively controlled to do something it had no plan to do. The point I'm trying to make is that there's an element of control that is clearly in one to a high degree that is absent or debatable in the other.

This whole argument can get philosophical, but I see your point.




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