[extropy-chat] Samantha, i read your message very carefully-- it is poignant, very important

[Dirk Bruere]

Samantha Atkins wrote:

> There is only us.  There are no others to consider the complex and 
> ethical issues.  There are no ordained ones of church or academia that 
> we may turn over the responsibility to.  History is largely in front 
> of us.  We have so much potential freedom to write what we will 
> there.   We cannot duck deciding what to write.    The world is being 
> made new.  We can make it a faster less forgiving copy of the old 
> natural world if we wish or are too afraid or haven't the energy to 
> consider what we wish to create.   The real possibility of 
> indefinitely long life adds more to the equation than any expert in 
> pre-emortality ethics and military history can address.  We can't 
> solve such things here but we can begin to talk about them and attempt 
> to include them in our thoughts about what is and is not a good course 
> of action in keeping with our deepest goals.
>
The future gets made by people who make it.
No other qualifications required.
Hitler and Ghandi can debate who had the most influence, with historians 
as judges.

-- 
Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
http://www.theconsensus.org



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