[extropy-chat] Re: [wta-talk] [wta-politics] Max More's article on Democracy and Transhumanism

[Don Dartfield]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Max More wrote:

> This disturbs me in large part because socialism has always been a
> disastrous goal and method and extending it to transhumanist issues
> would probably be even worse.

On the other hand, the fact socialism (or even communism) has proved
disastrous in the past doesn't mean that it would be disastrous with a
transhuman population.  The reason it has failed has been succinctly
summed up as "it goes against human nature," but the whole point of
transhumanism is to change what it means to be human.  Whether it would be
desirable to modify your personality to fit in with a communal system of
living is obviously a matter of individual tastes, and it shouldn't be
forced on people, but just because that kind of system hasn't worked out
in the past with unaltered humans doesn't mean that it will forever be
unworkable.