Re: Coming Trends: Fading Extropy? (extropians-digest V7 #279)

From: FutureQ (futureq@attbi.com)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 01:14:54 MDT


Dehede011@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 10/14/2002 10:55:00 PM Central Standard Time,
> futureq@attbi.com writes: If someone threatens my life by overt violence I am
> justified in seeing them as an enemy.
>
> I am having difficulty discovering exactly where you draw the lines in
> your philosophy. Is it your position that all Christians and all Moslems are
> threatening your life? I don't believe that of either group.
> On the other hand as a country, and perhaps even as a civilization, we
> do have enemies that hate us and would be happy to assist us in taking a big
> fall. I have read Harold Blum and in general find him helpful in
> understanding the conduct of some people.
> Ron h.

You're trying too hard to take my comments out of context. I merely made a
comparison by example. Take it line by line if you must. It should be very very
obvious to this list that certain medical technologies are under fire from a
bunch of different religious groups. Need I name each and every one and supply
chapter and verse of their arguments? Sorry, I won't do this. I expect this list
to be savvy enough to understand the obvious. I expect we all have read the
headlines. Maybe you haven't. If so then perhaps that is the problem in your
understanding who I consider to be enemies of our movement. This can't be news to
this list. BTW, it's Howard Bloom.

FutureQ



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 09:17:34 MST