From: YP Fun (ypprotection@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 17:01:11 MDT
--- Reason <reason@exratio.com> wrote:
>
>
> --> Lee Corbin
> > I wish to discuss a long discarded concept called
> "freedom"
> > that was widely understood in the 18th century.
> The word is
> > frequently still used today, but the meaning has
> all but
> > vanished from the consciousness of 20th and 21st
> century
> > peoples, and certainly from the posts on this
> list.
I would also like to know what freedom is.
Human beings are quite hypicritical. If we believe
that
the next generation of dominate species will be
computers then we will have to re-evaluate our
ideas of en-slavement and rights.
Should a machine have rights?
Should animals have rights?
Should clones have rights?
(--Are chimps people?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1952000/1952902.stm
--"Pets may get 'Bill of Rights'"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1957000/1957455.stm)
One of the biggest hurdles in the Declaration of
Independence
for the USA was the emancipation of black slaves.
This contradiction in the concept of "freedom"
resulted
in a Civil War...
Human beings will have to reevaluate their concepts of
freedoms and rights to accomodate animals so that in
their future these laws will protect them.
I would like to live forever. Some body somewhere
would
like to live forever - so out of his DNA he generates
a tree that buds body parts. Does this tree have
freedoms?
Where do the boundaries of an organism begin and the
boundaries of an organism end? How close are cells
tied
together? If two cells are adjacent and in contact
with
one another are they one organism? Are two daughter
cells
far apart two organisms.
YP
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