[ExI] Atheists catch a break

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Sat Jan 9 19:17:07 UTC 2021


On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 9:31 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> There's a thought - Would a civilisation 100 or 200 years from now
> punish revived cryonics people for all the 'wrong' things they did and
> said (wrong by the standards of the future society). Like our society
> is condemning the behaviour of people from earlier centuries.
> Consider how would we treat revived slave traders or soldiers who
> massacred primitive races, or people who supported human sacrifice?
> Send them to a re-education prison?
>

Flip that around: say you got cryo'd and revived 200 years later.  You can
be highly confident that society will have changed, in ways you will not
have predicted.  What do you do, to adjust yourself to fit into that
society?  Would you ask for reeducation, if it is offered?
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