[extropy-chat] Not Just Rednecks for Bush

[Giu1i0 Pri5c0]

Very true Hal, but the future is never 100% sure, so perhaps we should
say "if" instead of "once". The declared intent of the fundamentalist
christian wing of the US administration is to prevent these changes
from becoming actual opportunities. The only thing that can help is
the limited power of the federal government to overrule decisions of
individual states, so Washington can not (or perhaps I should say not
yet) revoke things like the Californian stem cell initiative.
They are not stupid: they know that your statement quoted below is
evidently true, and they will do their best to prevent these changes
from becoming actual opportunities.
G.

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:24:34 -0800 (PST), "Hal Finney" <hal at finney.org> wrote:
> Mike Lorrey writes:
> Once these changes become
> actual opportunities rather than merely potential futures, the memetic
> battleground will shift significantly.  No amount of pontificating by
> Kass or lecturing from the pulpit will turn Americans away from life
> extension and make them embrace death.
> 
> Hal