Yup, there's probably room for putting together some good batches of Soylent
Green under those kinds of assumptions.
Ownership of atoms... maybe there's some money to be made from finding a way
to "brand" atoms.
Down on the atom ranch; we'll have little nano sheepdogs, rounding up stray
atoms; atom rustlers? Send out the NanoPosse, replete with Photon Blasters,
and string up the fiends (using a benzene ring?)
This could cause some serious problems on the macroscale.
Emlyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <mlorrey@datamann.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 1:25 AM
Subject: Re: Libertarian sh*tcaking, was Re: extropians-digest V5 #340
> Ah, well, to extend the beer analogy, I'm sure there will be socialists
> who will say that society only rents you the atoms that make up your
> food, totally ignoring the fact that food atoms wind up as YOU, which
> would therefore mean they are, again, supporting slavery of the
> individual to society, as Proudhon said 155 years ago.
>
> Emlyn wrote:
> >
> > Hal wrote:
> > > But to go from there and say that you own the products of your labor
is
> > > entirely unjustified, unless these products emerge directly from your
body
> > > (and I doubt that anyone will fight you over those products).
> > >
> >
> > Given a future including general assemblers, it looks as though there is
the
> > possibility of an extreme form of libertarianism, who's devotees will
> > assemble objects only from their own bodily waste, just for the moral
weight
> > that this carries re: ownership.
> >
> > When you go that far, you need to ask about who owns the input atoms,
> > presumably from food. Maybe those atoms are someone else's? Maybe the
> > ownership of the physical body is less clear cut than it seems?
> >
> > Emlyn
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Mon May 28 2001 - 09:50:36 MDT