From: Max More (max@maxmore.com)
Date: Tue Sep 10 2002 - 09:54:51 MDT
In light of recent activity by racists, it's time for ExI to explicitly
make a statement to go on the website. I'd like to get it on there quickly.
Any comments on this draft?
STATEMENT OF INCLUSION:
Extropy Institute welcomes participation by all those who resonate with
most of the Extropian Principles regardless of race, sex, sexual
preference, nationality, or ethnicity. As extropians we seek to use
technology, rationality, imagination with benevolence to give all
individuals the ability to define themselves physically and
psychologically. We see traditional lines dividing humans from each other
as irrelevant even today, and as especially absurd in light of our future
possibilities. Extropian thinking draws heavily on Enlightenment and
humanist values, including the universalism of valuing all humans
regardless of the trivial differences. Extropy Institute refuses to support
any group which espouses any form of exclusionary and hate-based views.
Extropians welcome individuals of every origin and kind in seeking
perpetual progress, self-transformation, self-direction, open society, and
the other freedom-oriented values.
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Max More, Ph.D.
max@maxmore.com or more@extropy.org
http://www.maxmore.com
Strategic Philosopher
President, Extropy Institute. http://www.extropy.org <more@extropy.org>
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