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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 04, 2013 12:44 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] yet another ethical dilemma<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>On Sep 4, 2013 10:55 AM, "spike" <<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>> wrote:<br>> So now, my ethics hipster friends, what do I do now?<br>><br>><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span> Do I tell my black cousin?<span style='color:#1F497D'> spike</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>I fail to see the downside of this course of action<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'>This whole revelation is one very rare example in my own life of a piece of information I would unknow if we had the option to unknow some piece of information we know. If anyone here knows how to unknow something, do clue me. There are mercifully rare examples of information which is harmful to the individual. This might be one of them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span> Given what you have said, it would do her no harm<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'>Is that my call to make? Is there any introduction or opt-out exit ramp I should offer? Is that analogous to how 23andMe carefully introduces clients to their markers on two particular diseases before revealing them, offering the option to not unlock those two files? Note on that: I opened both, don’t have the indicators, my cousin opened both and has markers for one of the two really bad diseases, my bride opted to open neither file.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span> and it is information she has been searching for<span style='color:#1F497D'>…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It is that, and this is the reason why I am seriously considering telling what I know. I can estimate the upside of telling more easily than I can estimate the downside.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks Adrian.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Other opinions please?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>