From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Dec 07 1996 - 17:05:25 MST
> 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!
Excuse me! I'm working for a better future, which happens to involve
the total extinction of the human race, albeit not the death of any
individual human per se.
I would say that these people are not Extropians - they are "noble
Entropians", people who believe in a greater goal that simply happens to
be the exact diametric opposite of mine. As long as they conduct
themselves with misguided altruism, I see no problem in their being the
honorable enemy or the loyal opposition.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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