From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 00:30:14 MDT
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 22:22, Lee Corbin wrote:
> Brett writes (along the same lines as another poster)
> I think that that's a rather extreme caricature of the
> view that there should be more people. Put as simply
> as possible, would you (and that other poster whose
> email eludes me right now), prefer that some given
> quantity of mass---say Jupiter---continue on its
> stupid course, or rather that the trillions of tons
> of its substance support trillions of as yet non-existent
> people?
>
I don't need every spare bit of matter to be thinking beings. I am actually
perfectly content for Jupiter to be a good catcher of stray comets and such
for quite some time to come. If I was going to convert it to thinking
beings I think I could do a bit better than what we generally limite the term
"people" to today.
- samantha
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