From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 11:40:55 MDT
Time for me to plug the current rev of my "Spock-in-a-box has no friends"
sketch.
Available for a limited time at http://comp-lib.org/prelim/lbox_v0_3.html .
"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
>
> On Tue, 14 May 2002, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>
> > Our minds make us human. DNA has nothing to do with it.
>
> Actually, I'd refine this further -- it is our "empathy"
> that makes us human. The lack thereof -- e.g. the
> sociopathic tendencies of the Hannibal Lecters or the
> Freddy Krugers is what strikes fear in our hearts
> because they ignore the implicit social contract(s) that
> we have between ourselves as coexistant individuals.
> I think this is a fundamental nexus in extropic
> thought -- to what extent the individual has the
> right to explore paths that could lead to the
> extinction of all individuals (or alternatively
> all "non-aligned" individuals). A deep deep swamp.
--
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I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization.
Sometimes I forget.
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