Re: Morphological Freedom

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 16:33:15 MDT


On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:58:32AM -0700, Brian D Williams wrote:
>
> >http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/Texts/MorphologicalFreedom.htm
>
> Very well written and thought provoking, encompassing a number of
> new ideas. I particularly liked the idea of a "right to remain
> handicapped" (emphasis mine).

Thanks! I think that right is important to remember. There has been some
incidents where self-professed transhumanists have made disabled people
rather angry (and soiled their impression of transhumanism) by not
accepting it. By handling things a bit more smartly we can instead gain
valuable allies in our work towards full morphological freedom.

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