From: Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Date: Wed May 26 1999 - 17:03:19 MDT
Subject: Re: Property Rights
To: extropians@extropy.com
Date sent: Wed, 26 May 1999 14:59:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Lee Daniel Crocker" <lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net (none)>
Organization: Piclab (http://www.piclab.com/)
Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
> > THAT would be your answer to the parents????? "Suck it up,
> > folks; no need to be irrationally emotional about this li'l ole
> > aberration. It's only your kids lying dead in there."
>
> Am I supposed to feel like an evil human being because I put
> more faith in black-and-white numbers from a responsible study
> than in the lament of some sobbing mother? Well, then, I'll
> just have to accept that. My children will have to live with
> the consequences of what I do, not with how I feel. Sorrow
> won't accomplish anything. If that makes me inhuman, then
> that's one more reason to desire to become transhuman--perhaps
> a better-designed being won't be so distracted by emotional
> reactions from making the right choices.
>
> Wow, some actual transhuman/extropian content on this thread!
>
Your response may be clinically described as sociopathic, for it
makes no distinction between people and things.
> --
> Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html>
> "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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