[ExI] Reframing transhumanism as good vs. evil

[Mike Dougherty]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:14 PM, AlgaeNymph <algaenymph at gmail.com> wrote:
> A while age in college, I was in a speech class where one of the things we
> did was have a group critique our ideas.  I had an idea to speak about
> transhumanism, to which one of my classmates rather indignantly asked me why
> I wanted to advocate biotech enhancement instead of medicine.
>
> That's the problem we have.  Even when we're not seen as evil, we're seen as
> selfish nerds who are utterly indifferent to it.  The sad thing is I find
> myself almost believing this.  Causes that comedians can't brand as outright
> evil or obvious spin are pretty much about fighting evil and/or saving
> innocents.  Citizen heroics, basically.
>
> What kind of citizen heroics do *we* have?

How about not dieing of "natural causes" ?

It may take another 50-100 years before anyone is old enough to sway
the ignorant from the default belief that death is inevitable (soon it
may only be taxes)  I'm patient though...