RE: vegetarianism and transhumanism

From: natashavita@earthlink.net
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 16:27:24 MDT


From: Ben Goertzel

>>Animal welfare is a branch of ethics, i.e. there is no given right or
wrong answer. The extropian list isn't really the place to debate it IMHO.<<

I'm still an animal and my welfare is exceedingly important to my extropian views.

>Of course, there is a relation to extropianism, though.

>If we don't care about eating animals, why should the superhuman AI's we
spawn care about eating US??<

Clever answer. :-) I would be highly suspect of an superhuman AI that eats meat!! (I would be even more alarmed if we are still meat.)

Natasha

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