From: Francois-Rene Rideau (fare@tunes.org)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 16:37:45 MDT
>: Ben Goertzel, "RE: vegetarianism and transhumanism"
> Animal welfare is a branch of ethics, i.e. there is no given right or
> wrong answer. The extropian list isn't really the place to debate it IMHO.
I question the claim that ethical problems can have no answer;
this claim is the relativist claim of barbary itself:
"nothing is more justified than anything else".
Ethics can definitely provide answers to some (obviously not all) problems.
Libertarians are people who take ethics very seriously,
and thus so do self-respecting extropians.
Without ethics, you cannot be transhuman. You're not even human.
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Invoking relativism is only a hypocritical way to dismiss reason, with only
sheer force being left. It's abdication of reason, denial of everything that
makes the dignity of man. -- Faré
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