From: JDP (jacques@dtext.com)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 08:14:50 MDT
Spike a écrit (24.7.2003/19:47) :
>
> From: JDP [quoting a common objection, not voicing his own]
>
> "If cryonics actually makes sense, then everyone will want it, and it
> will cost too much to the community. We better spend this money on
> living people during their normal life."
>
>
>
> Jaques, I can see where that might cause a problem in France.
> In the U.S. there is no confusion between the concept of
> "this money" vs "MY money".
I know :)
>
> Actually I see cryonics as more comparable to the 1960s fad
> for bomb shelters. If I choose to spend my money on a shelter
> or cryonics, either way it is my choice. It doesn't cost the
> community anything, it dumps my horded wealth back into the
> community.
That is a great comparison. In fact both rely on an expectation,
except that cryonics relies on a positive expectation.
In Switzerland, this "fad" was in fact turned into a law, I think, and
new houses built had to have such shelter, and public shelters were
made to accomodate the people without private ones...
Jacques
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