system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Altered Carbon] does any individual life have meaning since you can always place your stack into a new sleeve whenever?
gpt
The individual body loses meaning *if a replacement is a trivial expense*; if you're super rich or part of a well connected outfit, you can basically treat a body as an expensive but replaceable tool. If you lack those means, a badly damaged body is a problem on the same level as a totaled car or a burnt down house, potentially life-altering (or ruining).

An individual *life* still has meaning, if not more so than normal. People still have a distinct, individual existence, and that existence can be terminated. A well placed gunshot in the neck will permanently end an otherwise potentially immortal existence (admittedly more effort is needed if a backup is involved), and that person is just as dead as if their normal, non-stacked body had been slain. Destroying a stack means you're robbing a person of not just an 80-100 year lifespan, but an eternity, and given that you can basically non-permanently immobilize a target by shooting them *literally anywhere else* it has an extra element of cold-blooded horror.