[extropy-chat] No Joy in Mudville

[Emlyn]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 11:44:01 -0500, John K Clark <jonkc at att.net> wrote:
> > They are voting from fear.   Fear truly is
> > "the mind killer".
> 
> Fear is a useful survival trait, if it were not evolution would not have
> ensured that every animal with a brain has it.

Pretty much all those same animals die of old age (there *may* be an
exception here and there, my mind is blank this morning). Yet, I'm not
a big supporter of old age as a useful trait for the future of
humanity.
-- 
Emlyn

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