From: T0Morrow@aol.com
Date: Tue Mar 19 2002 - 10:18:29 MST
In a carefully written and wonderfully polite message dated 3/19/02 7:32:28
AM, John Benner, discwuzit@yahoo.com, writes in relevant part:
>What about faith in the general goodness of humanity -
>which everything I've yet seen in transhumanism seems
>to implicitly include.
Although I can understand why someone might think that transhumanist thought
in general, and extropianism in particular, attributes inherent goodness to
humankind, I think that interpretation would err. I understand those world
views to instead regard human as *including in their number* an appreciable
number of intelligent and capable individuals who recognize the mutual
benefits of peaceful cooperation. Some humans, of course, lack those
attributes, as realistic transhumanists recognize.
The error arises, I suppose, because transhumanists at least do not blame
humankind for harboring inherent evil. The converse does not hold, however.
Rather, transhumanists go after the "inherent" part of that description,
rather than the "evil" part.
T.0. Morrow
http://members.aol.com/t0morrow/T0Mpage.html
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