On 11/26/07, Bryan Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 25 November 2007, Mike Tintner wrote: > > Are you guys anti-human? > > Wouldn't we all have to kill ourselves immediately if we were truly > anti-human? > > - Bryan
It would be more effective for those who are good at proselytising to spread the anti-human message widely before they killed themselves. Check out: http://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Euthanasia As for actually being anti-human, it is true that many transhumanists don't believe that the present version of homo-sapiens is the paragon of perfection (if that turn of phrase isn't too completely tautological). I, for one, fondly imagine that at a point in the future, that unmodified, unaugmented humans will serve the primary role in society as keepers-of-the-heritage. Think historical recreationists. (Of course, any particular human born to unmodified genetic lineage need not be excluded from upshifting, but that's not the point). The point is, that I don't imagine that excluding baseline homo-sapiens from many of the big decisions because they are too-relatively-slow, too-relatively-stupid or too-damn-selfish is necessarily such a bad thing. But I don't think that this is really being anti-human. I think a fairer characterisation would be that I, for one, am pro-posthuman. -- Olie ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&id_secret=68493366-cba003
