[extropy-chat] the (scary) future of pro-death bioethicsandlegislation

Spike spike66 at comcast.net
Mon Jun 14 03:37:42 UTC 2004


> Samantha Atkins
... 
> Spike wrote:
> >
> > There are some advantages to having the Fed up to
> > its elected eyeballs in debt: it is less able to
> > take on and screw up new areas of our lives.
> 
> Huh?  *We* are up to our eyeballs in debt.   Many hundred of billions 
> of our wealth are extracted every single year just to pay the 
> interest on this debt...

Ja.  The winning strategy is to save and invest in
government debt.  Then we become those to whom that 
interest is owed.

> We are less able to take on and succeed at 
> many things we fervently wish to do. - samantha

I fully agree, and support lower taxation.

My notion is that we must not look to government to
help us in any of our transhumanist goals.  Life
extentionists are inherently at cross purposes with
government in this: the government profits most if
we work hard all our lives, paying taxes in perfect 
health, then the day after we retire, suddenly fall 
dead of a massive heart attack.

Second notion, anything government can do, private
industry can do better.  Faster and cheaper too.  We 
must not have misguided medical ethicists making rules
for us.  Transhumanist goals can best be accomplished
by minimizing at every opportunity government 
participation.

spike 





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