[ExI] Libertarianism wins again...

[Damien Broderick]

On 7/19/2011 8:20 PM, spike wrote:

> The way our medical and pension system is evolving, we may find
> ourselves under governments which forbid any kind of life extension
> technology that actually works.

Hard to say. The way our medical and pension system is evolving, we may 
find ourselves under governments which insist upon any kind of 
healthy-life extension technology that actually works. Already, 
blatantly unhealthy or dangerous foods etc are either banned or 
increasingly restricted, because the costs of indulgence are so severe.

(It's not *government* per se that mandates crackpot religious 
prohibitions, rails against evilution, and tries to block stem cell 
research, etc. Although once the delusional crazies have established 
their power over government in some particular domain, it can certainly 
make a bigger mess of your day than any other force user. Well, unless 
you live near a Mexican drug cartel. "And who gives them their hold over 
peopel?" Yeah, I know, it's a vicious circle.)

Damien Broderick