Re: Defining Human

From: Frank Prengel (prengel@physik.tu-berlin.de)
Date: Fri Mar 06 1998 - 04:28:14 MST


On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Reilly Jones wrote:

[...]
> Why should the public listen to individuals who represent themselves as
> extropians, supposedly holding to principles of protecting and enhancing
> intelligent life, when they condone cannibalism, when they condone the
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You must have a strange concept of intelligence if you ascribe it to a
fetus who is a few weeks old.
Why should *we* listen to someone who bombards us with slogans? Of course
*you* know what it takes to be an Extropian: behaving & arguing like you
:(

[...]
> worked well in the SS boot camps.

Stop insulting us. It doesn't make your arguments more credible.

[...]
> As to moving to the Vatican, I don't think we can squeeze 5 billion people
> into a postage-stamp size country. Will the world death-worshipping elites

So you have 99.999...% of mankind behind you? Slightly exaggerated opinion
of yourself, I'd say.

[...more rhetoric deleted...]

Regards,
            F.P.

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