From: Giu1i0 Pri5c0 (gpmap@runbox.com)
Date: Fri Jul 11 2003 - 13:46:25 MDT
You must be right Damien, "we need to give McKibben's perspective its due in
order to understand why so many people, stifled by the oppressive uniformity
of some elements of droning office life, will warm to it". But I am
absolutely unable to understand it. I do not understand why some bright
people, even when they realize that technology can soon give them the choice
between living and dying, choose dying. I do not understand why some bright
people, even when they realize that technology can soon give them the choice
between long life perfect health and ebcoming crippled by old age, do not
warm to it. Etc.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Damien Broderick" <damienb@unimelb.edu.au>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: New Cryonic Suspension Paper
> At 07:24 AM 7/11/03 +0200, Giu1i0 Pri5c0 wrote:
>
> >McKibben makes as much sense as those who, realizing that
> >they will never be rich, say that being poor is better than being rich.
>
> Too easy a dismissal, I think. You could equally well say that attempts to
> refute McKibben make as much sense as those quadriplegics who, realizing
> that they will never again be able to walk in the seasonal changes of the
> woods, say that spending all day inside the hospital's unmodified light
and
> temperature is better than wading through fallen autumnal leaves or
running
> in bright sunlight.
>
> I don't think either view is adequate, of course, but we need to give
> McKibben's perspective its due in order to understand why so many people,
> stifled by the oppressive uniformity of some elements of droning office
> life, will warm to it.
>
> Damien Broderick
>
>
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