<div class="gmail_quote">2011/10/21 <span dir="ltr"><natasha@natasha.cc></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im"><p>Quoting Stefano Vaj <<a href="mailto:stefano.vaj@gmail.com" target="_blank">stefano.vaj@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
</p></div><div class="im">> Moreover, as already said, I have to meet yet a possible
"naive<br>> transhumanist", or anybody at all for that matter,
who actually proposes,<br>> say, to make life extension compulsory; so I do
not not really see the need<br>> to distinguish ourselves from such an
entirely imaginary bioluddite<br>> strawman.</div><p></p><p>I'm met some naive
transhumanists :-) <br></p></blockquote><div><br>So did I, but... advocating *compulsory* life extension?!<br><br>This is the weirdest think I have ever heard, and even though I admit that they could exist in principle, I have simply never met one, be it just in writing.<br>
<br>In fact, 98% of transhumanists I know are even in favour of euthanasia, or squarely of freedom of suicide. <br><br>And even though I know that many of us are simply "immortalists" in the literal sense, what I personally find unbearable and worth fighting against is not death per se, is the restriction to my freedom to decide whether to live or die, and when, imposed by our current lifespan.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><p></p><div class="im">> But perhaps those who disagree can point me
to a source, any source,<br>> expressing such a weird position. In that
case, yes, we should have to<br>> disagree with it.</div><p></p><p>I'll do this off
list.</p></blockquote><div><br>Ah, OK, thank you.<br> <br></div></div>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>