<p>I DID NOT SAY SUCH A STUPID THING.</p><p>Quoting spike
<spike66@att.net>:<br /><br />><br />> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:42
PM, Natasha Vita-More wrote:<br />><br />>> I think she must have
gotten this from some person she interviewed and<br />>> paraphrased it
without quoting who said it.<br />> ...<br />><br />>>
..."...Transhumanists say we are morally obligated to help the human
race<br />> transcend its biological limits..."<br />><br />><br
/>> Ja, but the author must be called on the carpet, even if gently. If a
news<br />> person quotes someone or uses quotation marks, they need to get
the quote<br />> exactly as it was uttered or written. This is basic
journalistic ethics.<br />> It would likely be OK to just call the journal
and talk to someone in<br />> charge, let her handle it. From the article,
this quote appears<br />> unattributed, but it implies Natasha said it, which
I am quite confident she<br />> did not. The writer should have left off the
quotation marks.<br />><br />> This particular quote creeps me out because
it sounds too much like some JW<br />> saying "We are morally obligated
to help the human race find Jesus."<br />><br />> spike<br />><br
/>> Unrelated question: Whenever Jesus found himself in a moral or
ethical<br />> dilemma, would he ask himself, "What would I do?"<br
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