[ExI] Reframing transhumanism as good vs. evil

[AlgaeNymph]

On 1/11/11 10:27 PM, Kevin Freels wrote:
> Citizen heroics? Selfish geeks? You have it all wrong. Over a hundred 
> people die every minute. Is that not the most disgusting and horrid 
> thing you can imagine considering that with the right effort we could 
> do away with that entirely?
On 1/11/11 4:40 PM, Mike Dougherty wrote:
> How about not dieing of "natural causes?"

Death is natural!  Nature is good!

I went to college in San Francisco.  I grew up reading White Wolf.  
Luddite rants are /burned in my brain.../

> We have a goal to end death and suffering. What could be more heroic? 
> It's so damned heroic that many people have trouble grasping the idea. :-)

Yep, we're hero(ine)s with bad publicity. :)  Still, reframing death as 
an illness looks like a good place to start.  We still need to find the 
villains who stand to profit from suppressing immortality.

Now how do we similarly reframe other forms of enhancement?
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