[extropy-chat] Essay on Physical Immortality

[Samantha Atkins]

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 11:33:32 -0800 (PST)
Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Contradiction: killing humans who would otherwise prevent others from
> gaining access to radical life extension technology, to such a degree
> as to cause death. Is it wrong to kill such humans or not?
> 

It would be more ideal to contain, stop or in practice defeat their intentions while leaving them time enough to reconsider.   This may not always be possible in practice though.  So yes, it is wrong.  Like many wrongs there can be circumstances where it is the lesser of evils. 

- s