[ExI] hitchins fans: hitchins on UN free speech proposal

[spike]

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> Stathis Papaioannou
> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 3:47 AM
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> Subject: Re: [ExI] hitchins fans: hitchins on UN free speech proposal
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> 2009/3/6 spike <spike66 at att.net>:
> > Hitchins is about 4.5 minutes in, so you might want to fast forward.
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji-qdC5zYd4
> >
> > When we were talking about those who consider transhumanism a 
> > religion, we never dealt with the possibility that if it were so, 
> > criticism of transhumanism could become an international crime.
> 
> This is disturbing, but the thing about the United Nations is 
> that for the most part governments through their UN delegates 
> behave better collectively than they do individually. For 
> example, no country actually voted against the UN declaration 
> of human rights in 1948, although the Soviet Bloc, South 
> Africa and Saudi Arabia abstained.
> When a country does refuse to sign or ratify something that 
> almost every other country does alarms are raised as to that 
> country's motives. Of course, making fine-sounding 
> declarations and actually following them are two different things.
> 
> 
> 
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> Stathis Papaioannou
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