[phaedrus]

I'm currently reading the book "Fall, or Dodge in Hell" by Neal Stephenson. Speaking in general terms to avoid too many spoilers, there's a scene where it's strongly implied one character is responsible for the death of another. Both end up having their brains scanned and uploaded to a simulated afterlife. (The other dying of natural causes soon after.) Not addressed (at least, not yet) in the book, but something I couldn't help wondering, is how or should this crime be punished? Perhaps the killer shouldn't have been allowed to be uploaded, but that had already occurred.