[extropy-chat] Futures Politics

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 08:07:09PM -0800, spike wrote:

> Market forces will eventually smash thru any law.  There
> is a steady market for recreational drugs.  All attempts

Any idiot can make recreational drugs in their kitchen, or
import those from industrial-scale plants in the world where
laws are weakly enforced. Drugs are easily consumed, too.

Now a medical procedure takes trained specialists, a fixed location,
and expensive hardware. This isn't something you can package
into a gel cap. You can shut that place down in no time at all.

> to stop it thru legal means have failed.  If human enhancement
> can be done profitably, there is no need to bother with
> the politics; it will happen anyway.

I wish it was that way. But the operating systems of our
societies have definite impact on many services, medicine included.
Whether it's abortion clinics, or (hypothetical) stem cell
rejuvenation treatments, if they're banned locally, that's
a threshold.

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Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a>
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