Re: Transhumanism vs Humanity (WAS: Singularity Card Game Alpha Test)

From: Richard Steven Hack (richardhack@pcmagic.net)
Date: Mon Mar 11 2002 - 08:28:03 MST


At 11:18 AM 3/11/02 +0100, you wrote:

>You can't. You can imagine yourself escaping to space, a secret base in
>Antarctica or artificial island in the Pacific, but these options are
>not particularly realistic (see my previous criticisms on this list on
>the "exit strategy"). Instead you have to live and work in a world where
>many people disagree with you. The way to survive those five and half
>million people is to convince the remaining five *billion* people that
>your views, if not theirs, at least require tolerance and protection
>(because if they do not give that, then what is there to protect their
>own not universally accepted views from everybody else?). If five
>billion people think you are wrong and awful, then you better find ways
>of convincing them otherwise. Hoping to escape them is a daydream.

Well, thank you for depressing me more than I already am... Perhaps I
should just commit suicide now...

Richard Steven Hack
richardhack@pcmagic.net


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