Re: ExI = Truth First ?

Daniel Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Sat, 16 May 1998 15:35:45 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 16 May 1998, Yak Wax wrote:

> The Extropian Principles are big on "we believes" (i.e. BEST DO IT SO)
> but lack the "why we believe" that so many Extropians seem confused
> about. So why hasn't Extropianism got a core value, utilitarian or
> otherwise? Why exactly do Extropians seek BEST DO IT SO? Eh?

For a variety of different reasons, none of which are necessarily
compatible with each other; just as it should be.

I doubt extropianism is justified the same way in moret han two or three
different individuals within the group; trying to agree on a universal
moral justification may even be ANTITHETICAL to the whole extropian
concept for some (a la pancritical rationalists.) So I'd just as well
leave this topic alone.