Re: [wta-talk] more stupid legislative tricks to bring on early death, disability and suffering

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Mar 01 2003 - 02:18:28 MST

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    What really needs to be stopped is the very idea, any legitimacy
    granted at all to the idea that it is a reasonable function of
    government, within the purview of government to wield any such
    broad powers. As long as it is excepted as legitimate there
    will always be the danger of such irresponsible massive blows.
    Do not give as fickle and dangerous a Beast as government this
    kind of power. Chain it and quickly. How? There's the rub.

    - samantha

    Reason wrote:
    > We're one short debate and vote away from a major hit to life extension
    > medicine:
    >
    > http://www.msnbc.com/news/852027.asp?0cv=CB10
    >
    > This sort of stuff really makes me mad. I mean, government agents really
    > don't have to *prove* that they can kill a whole bunch of people through the
    > machinations of a State and human nature. Theraputic cloning is currently
    > criminalized in France, and well on the way to being criminalized in the US.
    >
    > Last paragraph of this pretty much says it all:
    >
    > http://www.reason.com/rb/rb022603.shtml
    >
    > "Future generations will look back at the beginning of the 21st century with
    > astonishment that some very well meaning and intelligent people actually
    > wanted to stop biomedical research just to protect their cramped and limited
    > vision of human nature. They will look back, I predict, and thank us for
    > making their world of longer, healthier lives possible."
    >
    > It's lunacy. Self-destructive, murderous lunacy, egged on by the likes of
    > deathists such as Kass and Fukuyama. (They're more than deathists -- they
    > advocate that everyone be forced to suffer and become crippled too). If
    > unchecked this is lunacy that will kill most of us. Once legislation like
    > this passes, it can be decades before it's repealed.
    >
    > Gloomy, angry, fist-thumping-desk sort of day.
    >
    > Reason
    > http://www.exratio.com/
    >
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