From: Kathryn Aegis (aegis@igc.apc.org)
Date: Tue Feb 25 1997 - 15:09:26 MST
Max More:
>I will also suggest that the implications of cloning (even humans) is
>not particularly dramatic (though it is a sign of accelerated progress)
>since genetic engineering and other bio-modifications will be more radical.
And yet your basic person out there will be quite threatened by the
potential of altering that which s/he has always been taught not to
alter, either for religious or cultural reasons. Not to mention
resentful of the added personal responsibility. Body-mod will seem very
extremely radical to them.
I was out by the White House the other afternoon, saw a
large group of religious fundies protesting, and they were
chanting something about 'no more cyborgs'. I wanted to ask them
what they were talking about (pacemakers?) but the Secret Service guy
begged me not to start anything, so I didn't. I wonder if religious
leaders are taking steps to cast body modification into a satanic
mold. Has anyone heard more on this?
Sin,
Kathryn Aegis
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