From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 22:49:59 MDT
>From: Spudboy100@aol.com
>Zero, let me ask you. If you did find these transhumanists to be neonazis,
>what would you do? Would you send them a nasty note, or warn other
>extropians
>to watch out for them because of their deceit (assuming they are deceitful)
>?
No, I would simply ignore them.
>Basically, if they happen to be peddling White Power, however softly, you
>and
>I know what they are.
No, *you* may know what they are. I do not. Granted the consensus here
seems to be that they are racists. I don't know that they're not. But
until I see evidence of it myself I won't assume they are just because you,
or anybody else, says so.
>Rain is usually quite wet, and snow is typically white
>(minus dog waterings), and so forth. Why give the benefit of the doubt to a
>bunch of people whose world-view is so anathema to transhumanism?
a) Because I have seen no evidence that their "world-view is so anathema to
transhumanism" and
b) Because it is my nature to give everyone the benefit of the doubt until
they give me reason not to.
-Zero
"I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking
that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.
Has to be." -- George Taylor _Planet of the Apes_ (1968)
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