From: Twirlip of Greymist (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 06 1996 - 08:07:52 MST
On Dec 5, 11:51pm, Steve Witham wrote:
} And I wouldn't want to. What I meant was, if "extropy" means anything to
} me at all, it's the idea of actively pushing for a better future--which
} requires getting over apologizing for one's particular values--rather than
Which requires defining what your idea of a better future *is*. Someone
from the Church of the Euthanasia believes they're working for a better
future, which happens to involve the reduction or extinction of the
human race. Are they extropic? Why not? They're pushing for a better
future!
I think that's the point.
Merry part,
-xx- Damien R. Sullivan X-) <*> http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix
"It is a proud and lonely thing to be a prince of Amber, incapable of
trust. I wasn't real fond of it just then, but there I was."
-- Roger Zelazny, one of the Amber books, Corwin
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