Re: Discrimination (was Re: Some questions on the Extropy Institu te philosophy...)

From: James Rogers (jamesr@best.com)
Date: Wed Mar 20 2002 - 21:38:43 MST


On 3/20/02 4:12 PM, "Smigrodzki, Rafal" <SmigrodzkiR@msx.upmc.edu> wrote:
> Whenever there is a conflict between the survival of innocent humans, and
> anything else, even libertarian rules, survival wins hands down with me.

Survival is not a binary state. Are you trying to increase the average
survivability of all humans, or making sure that all humans survive
minimally? Having everyone "win" could very well mean that no one wins.

And what is an "innocent human" in the context of survival?

-James Rogers
 jamesr@best.com



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