[extropy-chat] Re: Nam

[Dirk Bruere]

Mike Lorrey wrote:

>--- Dirk Bruere <dirk at neopax.com> wrote:
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>>The Avantguardian wrote:
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>>>don't really need a byzantine hodgepodge of republics,
>>>democracies, monarchies, plutocracies, oligarchies,
>>>theocracies, and dictatorships on our planet to
>>>maintain cultural diversity. We just need universal
>>>freedom. The Muslims in the U.S. are just as Islamic
>>>as the ones in the Middle East, they just happen to be
>>>free and tolerant.
>>> 
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>>I beg to differ.
>>Most people, let alone Moslems, are not 'free and tolerant'.
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>That is mighty intolerant and unenlightened of you.
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Well, BooHooo

>>>     If you REALLY believe that we should suffer the
>>>existence of archaic forms of government in far flung
>>>corners of the world, then we should go all the way
>>>set them up as "historical anthropological preserves"
>>>and forbid the transfer of technology beyond that of
>>>agrarian societies into their borders.
>>>    I don't trust caliphs and sheiks to wield germs
>>>and nukes responsibly, not with what they have shown
>>>me so far.   
>>>
>>> 
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>>So in your future there is really only One Culture - The American
>>Way.
>>In the end we all need to control the bit of turf we stand upon,
>>whether metaphorical or literal. Territoriality is not going to
>>disappear in the future. Or at least, not in my future, which
>>obvious differs from yours.
>>That two Transhumanists should be in such conflict is less an irony
>>and more a prophecy.
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>Well, if we are going to chat about 'diversity', shall we ask what the
>point is of diversity? The only positive value of diversity, beyond
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Er... freedom.
Most especially so when we transcend our biology.
I would have thought a libertarian might have spotted that one - I was 
wrong.

-- 
Dirk

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