Re: Long term self-protection [was Re: BIAS: CNN commits fraud...]

From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Tue May 20 2003 - 13:24:01 MDT

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    --- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
    > On Tue, 20 May 2003, Brett Paatsch wrote:
    > > I reckon the next Extro is safe. Perhaps in no
    > small part because
    > > the next Extro is unlikely to be seen as a serious
    > threat to anyone.
    >
    > If you believe this then there are large segments of
    > the human
    > population whose points of view you do not
    > understand well.
    > Muslim fundamentalists, Christians, esp. of the
    > "born again"
    > variety, and much of the Presidential Bioethics
    > Committee come
    > immediately to mind.

    In his defense: threat, perhaps, but not "serious".
    If you were a suicide bomber belonging to one of these
    groups, who would you rather take out: a conference of
    people discussing modifications to the human genome,
    or labs that are actually implementing said
    modifications?

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