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>  I know that not everyone here shares the radical libertarian views
>  that I find consistent with Extropian ideals, but you should consider
>  that enough of us do to make us a bad resource for information on how
>  to make legislators do anything but go away.  If research on life
>  extension is your goal--and it is a noble one--then just do it.  Find
>  the people who can do the research and try to get the funding by free
>  market voluntary means; if you can't raise the money volutarily, then
>  the project isn't worth funding by force.
>  
Hey Lee, did you  read R.A.W.'s Shroedinger's cat? Remember how the e;ected
president of the Immortalist Libertarian Party put a huge reward on anyone
who found ways to extend life, and it happened almost immediately?
Legislation does not need to mean force, it could provide incentive.