Re: A Bioethical Foundation for Human Rights

From: natashavita@earthlink.net
Date: Wed Oct 31 2001 - 17:09:45 MST


William Web wrote:

> Those that behave in a criminal and irrational, uncivilized manner can
> not be defined as human, transhuman and certainly not posthuman. At
> best, they can be called "prehuman".

You are confusing psychological attributes to biological evolution. If you were to say "... Those that behave in a criminal and irrational, uncivilized manner can not be defined as humanist, transhumanist and posthumanist'", your statement can be better argued. Although I still have problems with the word irrational here because being a criminal doesn't make a person irrational. (Back to square one with the "r"ational thang.)

Anyway, I think Anders and Robert Bradbury answered this post effectively.

Natasha

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