From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sun Jul 08 2001 - 15:49:59 MDT
Michael Wiik wrote:
>
> Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@datamann.com> wrote:
>
> > The average consumer
> > would not understand enough of the debate to make rational informed
> > choices because they don't have the scientific skills to do so, and will
> > instead rely on who makes them most fearful for the safety and health of
> > their family.
>
> OTOH, I would certainly trust elite groups who can make food safety
> determinations for everyone. Maybe the FDA... oh, well, never mind.
>
> Come to think of it, why not just kill all the stupids? Take your
> lefties, greens, socialists, communists, luddites, anti-globalists,
> people who worry about GM foods and put em all in vast camps till they
> can be disposed of. I mean, they can't be educated, they are, by
> definition, opposed to noble extropian goals of long life, freedom and
> opportunity for everyone, so I say let's line em up and shoot 'em.
Nah, just upload them. Kill them (cure them) with kindness, by giving
them the circuitry of logic and objectivity that were never trained into
their minds in childhood.
Now, the lefties are the ones who don't trust individuals and rely on
state organs to keep us individualists leashed. Of course, thats only if
the people running those organs are politically vetted as one of their
agendafolk.
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