[extropy-chat] Re: Nam

[Dirk Bruere]

Mike Lorrey wrote:

>--- Dirk Bruere <dirk at neopax.com> wrote:
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>>>Well, if we are going to chat about 'diversity', shall we ask what
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>>the
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>>>point is of diversity? The only positive value of diversity, beyond
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>>Er... freedom.
>>Most especially so when we transcend our biology.
>>I would have thought a libertarian might have spotted that one - I
>>was wrong.
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>Diversity does not equal freedom. Forced protection of diversity is
>decidely anti-freedom, as the denizens of any American university
>campus can confirm. Diversity either exists freely because of the
>market, or it is not freedom enhancing. Government mandated diversity
>is little more than some thug holding multi-colored sock puppets up to
>the camera (with a gun in their backs, generally) for propaganda value.
>Stop conflating turds with sausages.
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So in your view there should only be *one* Trans/PostHumanity?
You aren't in favour of allowing a speciation ie diversification, to 
take place prompted by people like me?

-- 
Dirk

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