[ExI] Coalition Wants Moratorium on 'Extreme' Synthetic Bio Businesses

[The Avantguardian]

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From: Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com>
To: The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com>; ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> 
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: [ExI] Coalition Wants Moratorium on 'Extreme' Synthetic Bio Businesses

>You only need a few members to join up... I'm game! Shall we branch
>>off of pastafanarianism? :-)
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>Here is link:
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>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transhumanreligion/
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>The original founders and I were aiming for something a little more useful to our members than a pointed joke. But who knows? Maybe we should have went the route of discordianism or pastafarianism. In any case it would be nice to have first amendment religious protections for transhumanist activities that we are being persecuted over like cryopreservation, DIY bio, self-prescribing drugs, and all sorts of stuff.
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>Why is it that a JW or CS man can, in this country, legally force a doctor to watch the man's minor child die under the doctor's care because the child's religion prohibits a medical treatment that could save that child's life but Spike can't legally take Bexarotene without illegible written permission from a doctor?
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>I imagine that cryopreservation teams get hassled more coming into a dying patient's hospital room than a Catholic priest coming to administer last rites would.
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>Does that seem fair to anybody?
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>Stuart LaForge
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>"The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools." -Thucydides.
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