From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 17:37:17 MDT
Harvey writes
> Transhumanists should be especially interested in all laws against
> victimless crimes. These are people violating "nature" to do what they want
> with their own bodies without hurting anyone else. Any society that still
> suppresses simple sexual activities as "unnatural" will certainly be unable
> to accept body modification, cryonics, uploads, cloning, and other more
> complicated "unnatural" activities.
That's right, and worse, any society that makes it their
business to oversee and---even infinitely worse---"correct"
what happens between two peaceable individuals has little
regard for freedom and individual rights.
I cannot believe the people of Texas, who are known to be
such strong individualists, could have gotten into the frame
of mind where they would find it their business what goes on
in other people's homes.
However, it is sad that the U.S. Supreme Court, in turn,
has decided what the people of Texas will and will not do.
Instead of fifty individual experiments---often optimally
conducted by the free choice of the people there in light
of their own history and intuitions---the Americans are
again letting everything be determined in Washington.
To me, their violation of this rule is quite similar to
the unfortunate view of the Texans.
Chalk up another one for central control and one-size-fits-all.
Lee
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