From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Fri Dec 13 2002 - 15:02:36 MST
> (Anava000@aol.com <Anava000@aol.com>):
> Dear fellow Extropians,
>
> What is the point of extending life or even eradicating death, if all you
> going to do with these opportunies is bring along the same old negative
> baggage that you had before.
>
> By this I mean, rudeness, intolerance, censorship, bickering, violence and
> exclusivity?
Those are some of the most fun things in life, in the proper context
(for example, consensual violence, voluntary censorship, non-violent
intolerance, etc.)
What's the point of life at all if not to experience /everything/ in
it and not just some watered-down children's-book fantasy of
sweetness and light?
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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