The main distinction to make between us and them, is to distinguish what
is meant by "improving people". Nazis and their ilk had a preset
template of their "ubermann". We do not. We see each individual having
the power to determine for themselves what they need to do to meet their
own definition of "improvement". WHther one person wishes to be a pure
upload, while someone else may want to morph themselves into a catwoman,
or an aquaton, it does nto matter, except to the individual. It is this
central characteristic that inextricably links transhumanism to
libertarianism, and why we cannot separate the two, unless we wish to
pursue the sort of corporate communal overmind that would be a nazis
dream.
-- TANSTAAFL!!! Michael Lorrey ------------------------------------------------------------ mailto:retroman@tpk.net Inventor of the Lorrey Drive Agent Lorrey@ThePentagon.com Silo_1013@ThePentagon.com http://www.tpk.net/~retroman/Mikey's Animatronic Factory My Own Nuclear Espionage Agency (MONEA) MIKEYMAS(tm): The New Internet Holiday Transhumans of New Hampshire (>HNH) ------------------------------------------------------------ #!/usr/local/bin/perl-0777---export-a-crypto-system-sig-RC4-3-lines-PERL @k=unpack('C*',pack('H*',shift));for(@t=@s=0..255){$y=($k[$_%@k]+$s[$x=$_ ]+$y)%256;&S}$x=$y=0;for(unpack('C*',<>)){$x++;$y=($s[$x%=256]+$y)%256; &S;print pack(C,$_^=$s[($s[$x]+$s[$y])%256])}sub S{@s[$x,$y]=@s[$y,$x]}