From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Date: Wed Nov 26 1997 - 05:44:10 MST
Prof. Gomes wrote:
>
> If I have a robot that feeds me grapes, why would I want
> >to suddenly go out and kill some backwards religious person that fears
> >technology? It's absurd to think there would be a reson for such
> >right?
> >
> > Brent Allsop
> >
> >
>
> Of course killing them is not the solution and would never be an admitted
> behaviour in an evoluted world.
> But a solution sometimes is necessary since such religious people
> generally get politically organized and simply say (and may even "win" at
> the end) that your robot
> or human cloning, or anything else are "things of the devil"...and "against
> god's wish" ...
> Cause of such behaviour they are not so pretty good boys/girls...and we
> always must have a more intelligent
> (and stronger) response for them.
>
The best revenge would be to kidnap them and upload them. It would be
interesting to see an uploaded antitechnologist try to sue someone for
forcibly uploading them.... are they really the plaintiff, or merely a
devil spawned simulacrum???? If they don't have a soul, can they testify
in court, or even file suit????? If they are prolife, wouldn't voluntary
deletion of the upload constitute both murder, abortion, and suicide, or
merely the same thing as erasing a video tape????
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