From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 23:14:38 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>> Anders Sandberg wrote, <snip>
> Agreed! This is basic transhumanism. Any area of reality
> that we take over and control (such as food sources) can lead
> to both good and evil. With more control over anything, it
> will be used by evil people to increase starvation, warfare
> and tyranny, and it will be used by good people to expand
> civilization.
This makes sense to me at first glance. But then I have to wonder about your
basic assumption: why do you suppose is it good to expand human
civilization, if expanding civilization means we will have more mouths to
feed with poorer quality nutrition? Why would it not it be better to have
fewer but healthier humans?
It should be an accepted fact here by now (I hope, after all the posts I've
written about the subject) that agricultural products rank very poorly on a
nutrients/calorie scale. Bread, milk, cheese and pasta taste great, and
these foods certainly help us to feed the starving masses in this
over-populated world, but otherwise these foodstuffs have little to offer to
humanity.
-gts
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