Re: META: Proposed Inclusion statement for ExI

From: E. Shaun Russell (e_shaun@extropy.org)
Date: Tue Sep 10 2002 - 12:18:09 MDT


Max wrote:

>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.

On a cursory glance, I think this works. Great job.

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E. Shaun Russell Operations Officer, Extropy Institute
e_shaun@extropy.org http://www.extropy.org
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