From: den Otter (otter@globalxs.nl)
Date: Sat May 30 1998 - 11:31:09 MDT
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> From: Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se>
> Damien Broderick <damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU> writes:
>
> > He [Hayflick] closes, rather tendentiously,
> >
> > < Although aging and death put an end to the lives of good citizens, they
> > also make finite the lives of tyrants, murderers and a broad spectrum of
> > other undesirables.
>
> It is interesting to note that it is always the same arguments, and
> they are of course as usual wrong. I think we should learn to counter
> them well.
>
> The above argument is actually rather chilling; if we lived a shorter
> time the "undesirables" would live even shorter, so that ought to be a
> good idea.
Yes, Mr. Hayflick is apparently a couple o' bulbs short of enlightenment, as
are most other "great minds" & cultural icons. Could it really be that, of the
aprrox. 6 billion people on earth, only a couple of hundred or so really think
rationally ?
How absurd!
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