Re: more mad ideas I read in the paper

From: Robert Owen (rowen@technologist.com)
Date: Sun Mar 05 2000 - 19:12:56 MST


Damien Broderick wrote:

> How exactly *does* one `play God'?

Well, this would be my scheme; I would accumulate (that is,
expropriate) sufficient POWER to control the outcome of the
game.

Isn't that what it's really about, Damien? People would rather
have their wretched bourgeois illusion of freedom than be free
from disease, the sort of thing everyone else gets.

Bob

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