From: Avatar Polymorph (avatarpolymorph@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Sep 28 2002 - 00:14:54 MDT
Mike Lorrey writes:
You can be cured of religion. You can't be cured of race
(assuming you
need to be).
Of course you can be change your race. Genetic/protein therapies,
intra-inter cellular Drexlerian nanotech (supercomputers/cell repair
machines). Our local ABC science commentator Karl K. said in Who magazine
(Australia) in 2000 (or slightly earlier) that he intended to be black and
18 years old in appearance (he's currently in his 50s) in 2015 due to the
above.
I don't want to "cure" anyone of any belief system anyhows. I do want to
offer help to victims of non-consensual force via a Sysop (Singularitarian)
system of protective shielding, including in any interactive VR environments
including any computronium or broadcast-linked ones. As long as no one is
placed in unfair resource deprivation and as long as no one is subject to
non-consensual violence they can be as religious as they like in whatever
form they like.
Personally I think these rules should hold just as strongly should any
religious person be involved in any universe design in the future, which
some speculate may be possible, and also they should hold in any VR
environments that any religous persons design [i.e. they should not be
allowed to design a "hell" and then forcibly and non-consensually transfer
or "upload" a person into such].
Avatar Polymorph
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