From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 13:21:42 MDT
Anders wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 09:04:45AM -0400, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>>
>> It used to be a standard Extropian belief that the left-right
>> spectrum was totally inadequate to properly describe modern or
>> transhuman politics. I find it regressive that we are falling more
>> and more into these old-style political divisions on this list. We
>> used to be in more agreement on some issues and have more diversity
>> in others. Nowadays, it seems like were are stereotyping into two
>> opposing camps and straying further and further from the topics of
>> the future.
>
> This is a *very* good point.
>
> Last evening I attended a meeting about the future of healthcare,
> with a speaker from a the far left and another from the mainstream
> right. Both were essentially in agreement about how Swedish
> healthcare should look, just some minor discrepancies in how high the
> taxes should be and what treatments should be included in social
> security.
### This is interesting - what did they propose? It appears to me that the
terms "left" and "right" mainly describe minor differences in the flavors of
statists of all sorts, since as you say both want to solve all problems
using coercive methods. In that sense it is a meaningless distinction.
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The insidious questions from the transhumanist posse
> bounced away from them - morphological freedom was simply not a
> thinkable issue.
### Yes, freedom, and the use of non-violent methods is not a thinkable
issue, once you become bound to the left or to the right.
Rafal
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