[extropy-chat] Christopher Reeve Foundation: Request

[Reason]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Lorrey [mailto:mlorrey at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 2:20 PM
> To: reason at longevitymeme.org; ExI chat list
> Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] Christopher Reeve Foundation: Request

> --- Reason <reason at longevitymeme.org> wrote:
> > > From: Natasha Vita-More
> > >Today the religious terrorist gangs are gaining more and more
> > >control.  Bush wants to see them broken up and destroyed.
> >
> > Aside from the one he belongs to. ... War and terrorism are very
> > minor concerns compared to medical
> > research, application and regulation legislation.
> >
>
> If the war and the terrorism is keeping your economy from focusing on
> these things, then they are rather major concerns. It also doesn't help
> to play the moral equivalency game in trying to fuzzify the definition
> of 'terrorism'.
>
> It is really alarming to see the degree to which some people are
> willing to allow themselves to be programmed by the propaganda of those
> that apologize for the terrorists and their agenda. More examples of
> people with their minds so open that their brains fall out. What is so
> incredibly astounding is the degree that the omni-tolerant are so
> intent on defending and apologizing for a movement which is incredibly
> intolerant, unapologetic, and morally indefensible.

I'm not apologising for any group. I'm a libertarian
(minarchist/anarchocapitalist) pacifist myself. Violence and force are
reprehensible in all their incarnations, subtle or direct. I'm pointing out
that nothing that any existing terrorist organization is capable of can
match a five year legislative delay in regenerative medicine research in
terms of suffering and death caused. Hell, FDA policies alone have caused
more death and suffering than all formal terrorist groups (i.e. discounting
ad hoc / war-related terrorism of the Rwandan and Balkan sort) worldwide put
together over the past decade or two.

Reason
Founder, Longvity Meme