RE: `twisted ethics prevalent on the extropy board'

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon Jun 09 2003 - 09:04:03 MDT

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    On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Brett Paatsch wrote:

    > matus@matus1976.com writes in response to Damien:

    I think some of the attributions may have been lost here,
    so people should feel free to correct as necessary.

    > > > If your deputy is acting in a way you regard as
    > > > deplorable, it's up to you to speak out.

    Not completely reasonable. Its up to you to "speak out"
    *if* you feel it could be the best use of your time.
    My representative to congress is Jim McDermott. He is
    a physician turned politician. Normally he would be
    someone I would respect and admire but over the years
    I've learned that isn't a reasonable perspective (because
    he is a classic politician -- doing the things that get
    themselves reelected rather than the things that may be
    "right". But I live in Seattle the only probable way of
    getting him out of office (due to the local perspectives)
    would be to nuke the city.

    Since "speaking out" would be pointless -- the alternatives
    are to relocate to someplace where speaking out would not
    be pointless or to devote time and energy to activities
    that do have a positive effect in other areas. The best
    I can do is support "term limits" when there are opportunities
    to do so.

    > > Absurd, this is the kind of twisted ethics prevalent on the
    > > extropy board that alienates me.

    Cough. Since I'm on the board I would probably agree with Brett that this
    comment needs to be explained further. Since I'm not easily offended there
    is no need to apologize (at least to me). But since Extropian principle 7
    is "rational thinking" I would suspect that there should be *some*
    "adaptation" to conditions as they change or evolve. If that produces a
    perception of "twistedness" then so be it.

    I know that I'm a much different person now at the age of 46
    than I was at the age of 18 and fighting to avoid returning
    my draft card. Experience can change oneself! I'll observe
    briefly that we are up to "Extropian Principles 3.0". We
    are adapting -- which I think is a good evolutionary process.

    Robert



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