[extropy-chat] Transhumanism and non-gender roles

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:11:14AM -0800, Don Dartfield wrote:

> But if they had the choice, and if they weren't encumbered by religious 

I don't know what the cutoff is, but in the current generation it's
difficult to get through to people past 50. Maybe our generation will
fare better; we'll see. Kids are easy, but I'm not sure they retain
the view as they age. 

I notice several transhumanists have drifted away as they aged.

> ideas about death being a good thing, I would think they would rather be 

They think they're immortal already, so they will fight you tooth and nail when
you attempt to take their only protection away. Actually, they will simply
reject whatever you say, so there's even not much fighting involved.

> young again than die.

A lot of people do not want to become young again. Because they're
comfortable as they are, and don't want to go back to teen/twen angst.
They don't understand that you can have the one, and not the another
as well. 

It will become iffy as chronical diseases make the daily living
really painful, so anything becomes an improvement (you never seen
old people longing for death?). But, old people are the toughest cases.

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