Re: Moo/Boo! Was: Agricultural Skyscrapers

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Jan 29 1998 - 05:08:57 MST


dalec@socrates.berkeley.edu writes:

> 1. Vegetarianism is extropian because it is a healthy lifestyle.
> 2. Vegetarianism is extropian because it broadens and complicates our
> ethical perception of the world.
> 3. Vegetarianism is extropian because it is an ethical laboratory in which
> we can think about proper political and ethical relations between
> radically different kinds of beings *before* a singularity-like-event
> forces us to do so.

Vegetarianism is extropian since it means we place our personal
ethical values above our evolutionary past.

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