From: Brian Atkins (brian@posthuman.com)
Date: Sat Jan 10 1998 - 09:55:28 MST
Are there any organizations out there lobbying FOR cloning rights?
Eugene Leitl wrote:
>
> On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>
> > [...]
> > What is it that they fear? What can we do to assuage that fear or
>
> That fear is caused by ignorance. Obviously cloning, even human cloning is
> very small beer with what we are to expect next. What we have here is imo
> the first instance of (state-backed) neoluddism, with _more_ to come. Once
> the mainstream gets wind of the whole progress Pandora package... Is this
> the first shadows of Butler's Jihad? Such a thing would certainly delay
> the Singularity significantly.
>
> > (often more effective) to ridicule it?
>
> Alas, education is not something that can be administered by force.
>
> 'gene
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