From: GBurch1@aol.com
Date: Thu May 27 1999 - 07:13:26 MDT
In a message dated 99-05-26 23:30:48 EDT, craig@slob-squad.freeserve.co.uk
(Craig Dibble) wrote:
> A couple of points I'd like to raise here:
>
> 1) What possible extropian/ transhumanist merit can this pointless slanging
> match have? It seems to be being conducted between sides who are *Never*
> going to find a common ground and who are getting more abusive as the
thread
> continues.
[snip]
> Craig Dibble.
>
> A concerned non-American (non gun owner).
As an American gun owner, I'd like to add my voice to this comment. The
recurring gun debate is usually prolonged by entrenched folks willing to
engage in flame wars because the deep ideological divides and strong
psychological factors involved aren't conducive to peaceful dialogue. I'd
like to request that posters in these threads limit their writing to a civil
statement of their own positions and a willingness to let the matter go for
now -- we've had too much experience with this topic here to believe that any
resolution is likely for now. BTW, I would love to take Anders up on his
challenge to develop liberating technological responses to the issues (which
IS very extropian), but unfortunately have a couple of large projects
percolating at work now. I'll end by reiterating a request for civility and
that posters PLEASE refrain from unnecessary profanity.
Greg Burch <GBurch1@aol.com>----<gburch@lockeliddell.com>
Attorney ::: Vice President, Extropy Institute ::: Wilderness Guide
http://users.aol.com/gburch1 -or- http://members.aol.com/gburch1
"Civilization is protest against nature;
progress requires us to take control of evolution."
-- Thomas Huxley
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