[ExI] Reframing transhumanism as good vs. evil

[Samantha Atkins]

On Jan 12, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Stefano Vaj wrote:

> On 12 January 2011 22:00, <natasha at natasha.cc> wrote:
> Medicine is a very necessary component of human enhancement.  The person asking you this question was not clear and you could have told him/her that one of the most beneficial aspects of enhancement is its ethical and courageous use of medicine to help cure people from dreaded diseass and tragic injuries.
> 
> An additional, easy retort is that *medicine itself* has never been perfectly orthodox from a utiitarian POV nor "sustainable" by any means. At any given time, more human lives and suffering would have been spared by reallocating globally the resources devoted to medical research, and to actual day-by-day medicine for that matter, to some other end, such as feeding the hungry, increasing safety, etc. 

Prove it.

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