From: Max More (maxmore@globalpac.com)
Date: Tue Oct 27 1998 - 21:40:33 MST
At 12:20 PM 10/28/98 +0000, you wrote:
>
>This list often enthuses over prospects of massive
>interventions and improvements in the genome, yet Max *appeared* to be
>saying that drastic genomic engineering, per se, was a laughable notion -
>when posited by an ideological opponent.
If I had been doing that, it *would* have been double-think. I have plenty
of faults, but I am certain that that blatant kind of double-think is not
one of them. I would *never* do that!
Coercion *was* a part of Pizulli's scenario. Sorry if I didn't take the
time to set the whole thing out. Of course without the coercion, cloning
legless people for space would be a really dumb thing to do. If those
individuals didn't want to follow your plan for their lives, they might be
very pissed that you made them legless when this limits them in a gravity
field. "Oops! Sorry, Sally. It never occurred to us that you might want to
live on Earth or in an artificial gravity experiment. Look, we bought you
some shiny new crutches!"
Max
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