From: empresstheodora@juno.com
Date: Thu Jun 20 2002 - 01:18:34 MDT
---------- Max More <max@maxmore.com> writes:
From: Max More <max@maxmore.com>
To: extropians@extropy.org
CC: max@maxmore.com
Subject: Re: Charging for obesity
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:33:13 -0700
At 09:28 PM 6/19/2002 -0700, Spike wrote:
>I am often one of the 4 skinnies who must fly crammed in, and
>of course Big Mac is always on the aisle. Fer cryin out loud!
>Are appetites that strong, that people will do *anything*, suffer
>any indignity, to satisfy them?
Sorry, Spike, there was no mention of subsidies for the skinny.
"If Americans keep adding 8lbs per decade on average, we may collapse into a
singularity before we get through a Singularity."
Statistically this trend cannot continue. There is eventually a leveling out.
Max
"Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it."
--Tallulah Bankhead
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max@maxmore.com or more@extropy.org
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Strategic Philosopher
President, Extropy Institute. http://www.extropy.org <more@extropy.org>
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