From: Forrest Bishop (forrestb@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Fri Jun 07 2002 - 15:21:23 MDT
----- Original Message -----
From: Lee Corbin <lcorbin@uui.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 12:51 PM
Subject: Criticizing the Extropian Principles
> Yes, let's please criticize the Extropian Principles! ...
> Open Society --
> Supporting social orders that foster freedom of speech, freedom of
> action, and experimentation. Opposing authoritarian social control
> and favoring the rule of law and decentralization of power. Preferring
> bargaining over battling, and exchange over compulsion. Openness to
> improvement rather than a static utopia. ...
> I cannot find a single phrase---even a single word that bothers me.
> Please, can't you? Isn't there some little tiny thing that rubs you
> the wrong way? Well, let's hear about it!
Several things could use a tune-up. "Static Utopia" for example is oxymoronic, even as State is unrealizable. "Rule of law" is an
impossible ideal, as laws are quite strictly matters of cognitive processes, and therefore different for each individual. Laws are
not to be found in books or other recording media, as these information storage devices are subject to personal interpretation.
Forrest
-- Forrest Bishop Chairman, Institute of Atomic-Scale Engineering www.iase.cc
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