From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 19:14:12 MDT
From: "Brian Phillips" <deepbluehalo@earthlink.net>
> Yeah like I said.. a statist-socialist sort in spades. You support
govermentalization of my trade (medicine), and the rest of the list is even
more odious.
What was it Ronald Reagan said when he was shot and being administered to by
a doctor? (something like, "I hope they're Republicans ...). Aiiiii, I
must remember to be very careful about my health and ...
> (I support dueling as an alternative to capital punishment ...
... avoid like hell to come between another
Pushkin-and-Baron-Georges-d'Anthes-Heeckeren-type scenario ... (Brian,
you're not really being serious, are you?)
> Socialism is a plague meme IMHO, and a "socialist transhumanist" is
virtually a contradiction in terms. It could be made to work I suppose, but
the core of the transhuman ethos is, and hopefully will continue to be, one
rooted in liberty and the idea of freedom. Things you believe are negotiable
in exchange for some things. I don't believe they are negotiable, one can
steal them from me, take them by threat or force, but one can't buy them,
nor will I sell someone else's.
Not that it entitles me to my beliefs more any more than it entitles you to
yours, but (because I have detected how you have a kind of abiding respect
for men who've fought and sacrificed their lives for "freedom"), my father's
youngest brother died in World War II to help preserve your right to believe
what you want ... and for me to believe what I want. Say "thank you" to him
next time you're in the Bay Area (he's listed under my last name, Bourlin):
http://www.interment.net/data/us/ca/sanmateo/ggate/b/golden_b14.htm
> You would in a hot second for the greater good. Certain situations I
would work with you, preservation of life and limb of course. But it's
strictly a matter of neccessity ...
You'd work with me in certain situations? I'll take that as a teensy step
in the direction of "maybe Olga is not a gorgon" ...
> , you don't believe in respect for property as I conceive of it.
I own property, *and* I also pay taxes. The former you can't mess with, the
latter I am willing to share.
> Put very simply, I don't care to be in your tent. The airlock is *that*
way. Have a nice day.
Hmm, maybe Olga is still a gorgon, after all. :-<
O.
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