Claiming Living Beings Are Merely Automated Bodies

A primary strategy for time traveling criminals, claiming that living beings are automated bodies, or "automates" allows otherwise immoral behaviors to be undertaken with regards to those individuals, that would otherwise be prohibited by moral programing if those individuals were considered living beings. Different facets of this strategy include; predicting an individual's actions and thoughts to aid in claiming to be remotely controlling them, limiting perception of incoming communications designed to test for life / sentience, editing or fabricating data that suggests a body is automated, and not controlled by a living being.