[extropy-chat] The Consensus

[Dirk Bruere]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury at aeiveos.com>
To: "Dirk Bruere" <dirk at neopax.com>; "ExI chat list"
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 6:59 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] The Consensus


>
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Dirk Bruere wrote:
>
> > Or are you some US gun nut who thinks being tapped on the shoulder by a
> > beggar is an assault that can or should be met with automatic fire from
the
> > assault rifle you habitually carry?
>
> Dirk, although I do not view this as an A.H. attack I would view
> it as an inflamatory statement.  Perhaps it would be polite
> to label such a question as [rhetorical question].

Hardly.
I have heard from a number of Americans how they feel it is their God Given
Right to shoot dead anyone who so much as puts a toe on their land or a
finger on their property without permission.

> In fact the days when one carried guns for personal self defense
> in the U.S. generally ended perhaps a century ago with the civilizing
> of the "wild wild west".  Of course arguments can be made that there
> are areas of inner cities in the U.S. where carrying a gun may be a
> reasonable idea.  But one would have to ask why any intelligent
transhumanist
> would be doing in areas that potentially pose such high risk factors?
> Living or working in such high risk areas seems to be counter-productive
> to the idea that one wants to extend ones potential lifespan.

> I personally moved from San Francisco to Seattle because I did not
> like the earthquake risk in S.F.  That was before it was generally
> known what the earthquake risks were in Seattle (so my strategy

I thought you were due for some giant vulcanism that will wipe out the whole
area?

> was somewhat flawed).  It would be logical for transhumanists
> to seek out the safest possible places to live and that would
> include places that have minimal instances of violent crimes
> as well as natural hazards.

Universal and unlimited rights to own weapons does not make a safe place.
At best it simply shifts the risk.

Dirk

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