From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 13:25:06 MST
Damien Broderick wrote,
> He remarks:
> >and that name, "Betterhumans" is terrible, combining tackiness with
> >immediate connotations of the "old" bad eugenics.
>
> Couldn't have said it better. PLEASE rethink this awful meme/tag, people.
Yes. It does seem to be that we tend to frame everything bad that we want
to change about ourselves as the human part. I prefer to consider
everything good that I want to preserve about myself as the human part.
Cryonics, life-extension, enhancements and the like are all tools to
preserve and extend my humanity to give it more capabilities than before. I
think humanity should be defined by its aspirations more than its
limitations. In that sense, I am looking to use technology to make me even
more human, not less.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <http://HarveyNewstrom.com>
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