From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Sun Feb 22 2004 - 21:07:33 MST
Heck, observe the legal harassment currently being inflected on Alcor:
http://www.alcor.org/legislativealert.html
And they're not Transcending people, they're just freezing corpses in hopes
of eventual revivification!!
No one is done any harm if I voluntarily have my corpse frozen -- yet there
are a lot of people dead set on taking away my legal right to do so.
-- Ben G
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sl4@sl4.org [mailto:owner-sl4@sl4.org]On Behalf Of Peter C.
> McCluskey
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 4:39 PM
> To: sl4@sl4.org
> Subject: Re: Positive Transcension 2
>
>
> Philip.Sutton@green-innovations.asn.au (Philip Sutton) writes:
> >Frankly I doubt if anyone will care if humanity evolves or transcends to
> >a higher state of being so long as it's voluntary. To a
> timeless observer
>
> Most people will care because they have a strong desire to maximise
> their relative status. If you doubt that, try imagining whether our
> ancestors' reproductive success was increased if they tried harder to
> increase their relative status.
>
> Unless we find a way for everyone who wants to to transcend at the same
> time, or ensure that the transcendents don't look superior to those left
> behind, this will be a serious source of conflict.
> --
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> Peter McCluskey | "To announce that there must be no criticism of
> http://www.rahul.net/pcm | the President, or that we are to stand by the
> | President right or wrong, is not only
> unpatriotic
> | and servile, but morally treasonable to the
> | American public." - Theodore Roosevelt
>
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