From: reedart@ix.netcom.com
Date: Thu Jul 23 1998 - 08:45:31 MDT
a note from the list:
> I don't think tools are extropian - people are.
>
> You can do more damage and more good with a powerful computer than
> with a gun. Technology is amoral. All technology can be used towards
> extropian goals, or toward 'entropian' goals.
>
> The choice is ours.
>
> Certainly, rejecting technology that the 'entropians' regularly misuse
> (such as guns) will not help the 'extropians'. After first inventing
> the technology, and letting it fall into the wrong hands, giving it up
> completely into the hands of 'entropians' is probably the dumbest
> thing an 'extropian' can do.
>>>Hear hear, and excellent way of putting the debate in extropic terms.
ya know, one of the most exasperating things about this list to ME, is
that (only some) people who call themsleves futurists, find this way of
using the oldest thinking in the book... this is the old "if only
criminals have guns" argument, but neatly turned into an emotional ploy
for wanna-be techno-better-thans.. being a superhuman techno-geek is a
good thing, but it sure doesn't seem to qualify much emotional IQ...
Listen - shooting a gun at someone, in itself, is a lame, neanderthal
thing to do, whether you are being attacked or not. A smart person, an
ADVANCED person, or if you like and EXTROPIC person, would have either
PREPARED themselves (so they don't get in that kind of circumstance) or
have a better game plan than that... messy - old fashioned - crude...
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