From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Tue Apr 02 2002 - 12:25:05 MST
On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, John K Clark wrote:
>"Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> Wrote:
>
> > Unless his argument is deeper than what is quoted I don't think
> > it can hold water.
>
>[...]
>So we have yet
>another bioethicists, a man by definition far more ethical than you or me,
>suddenly discovering that future developments in science will lead to
>profound changes in human beings, well thanks for the news flash Mr.
>Fukuyama. He figures people will live longer, probably much longer, and they
>could get more intelligent too and that would for the first time change
>human nature. All this might lead to social problems
>and he can't think of a immediate and simple solution to these problems.
>Thus this great moral philosopher has concluded that things should to
>regulated by government so people remain stupid and die when nature (that is
>Mr. Fukuyama) thinks they should.
>[...]
I'm saving this post as the "quick explanation on why luddites are wrong"
category winner :) - ready to use it for all the common objections that
people have when they hear from me of "that strange Extropy thing".
Alfio
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