<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>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? 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. :-)<br></div><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> AlgaeNymph <algaenymph@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org>; Humanity+ Discussion List
<wta-talk@transhumanism.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, January 11, 2011 2:14:33 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [ExI] Reframing transhumanism as good vs. evil<br></font><br>
A while age in college, I was in a speech class where one of the things we did was have a group critique our ideas. I had an idea to speak about transhumanism, to which one of my classmates rather indignantly asked me why I wanted to advocate biotech enhancement instead of medicine.<br><br>That's the problem we have. Even when we're not seen as evil, we're seen as selfish nerds who are utterly indifferent to it. The sad thing is I find myself almost believing this. Causes that comedians can't brand as outright evil or obvious spin are pretty much about fighting evil and/or saving innocents. Citizen heroics, basically.<br><br>What kind of citizen heroics do *we* have?<br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><span><a target="_blank"
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