[ExI] Transhumanism and Politics

[Samantha Atkins]

On Jan 22, 2008, at 12:59 PM, Stefano Vaj wrote:

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> And I am pretty sure that many would consider "violent" whatever
> attempt at enforcing "property" of longevity technologies might took
> place. Because, you know, to do that you would require guns,
> policemen, electrified fences and so on, more or less as to enforce an
> attempt to assert property on breathing air.

Not at all.  I will encourage distribution as widely and at a price  
that all can afford as is in keeping with reality.  But I have no  
right to force the developers/owners of such technology to give me  
access whatsoever.    To call their protection of their own property  
as "violent" as in the sense of an initiation of force in its own  
right is to miss the distinction between defense and aggression.

Are you equating yet to be invented longevity techniques of unknown  
real cost and difficulty of production/implementation/distribution  
with air?
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- samantha