[extropy-chat] Protect ourselves to prevent a return to the middle ages

[Al Brooks]

You don't need me--you can always convince members of your own family to fight in my place, can't you?

  Joseph wrote:
>I must disagree with that attitude, Al.
>
>A live coward is not necessarily better than a dead brave-heart, if the
>live coward has given up everything that makes his life worth living.
>
>Or more to the point, if you roll over now, you abbrogate the right to
>complain when the Caliphate declares that life extension technology,
>performance enhancements, freedom of conscience, and everything else
>that defines Transhumanism is "offensive" and thus it becomes
>impermissable. They've already got it within the Muslim lands. Now
>they're trying to make it so everywhere.
>
>If you don't fight now, you won't have the chance to fight later.
>
>Joseph
		
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