From: Chris Hind (chind@juno.com)
Date: Fri Nov 29 1996 - 19:44:50 MST
>Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 18:00:59 -0700
>To: transhuman@logrus.org
>From: cary@agora.rdrop.com (David Cary)
>Subject: >H Re: Cryonics bafflegab?
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>There's an interesting thread going on in
>
>>Newsgroups: sci.physics,sci.cryonics
>>Subject: Re: Cryonics bafflegab?
>
>I've never seen some of these anti-cryonics arguments before.
>
>One of them has the flavor of a tautology; let me try to reconstruct it in
>a formal language:
>-------
>Cryonics technicians are committing a crime and should be jailed.
>
>There are only 2 possible cases:
> Case 1:
> Cryonics technicians take a dead human body and freeze it.
> Case 2:
> Cryonics technicians take a living human and freeze her.
>
>In case 1, since it is physically impossible to return the dead back to
>life, Cryonics technicians are perpetuating a fraud.
>
>In case 2, since even the cryonics technicians themselves admit that the
>future thawing process is unlikely to have 100 percent survivial rate,
>Cryonics technicians are committing premeditated murder.
>
>In either case, cryonics technicians are committing a crime and should be
>jailed.
>-------
>
>I have the text of most of the posts (with many ad-hominem attacks in both
>directions), if anyone would like the whole file.
>
><a href="mailto:d.cary@ieee.org">David Cary</a> <*> O-
>Future Technology.
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