[extropy-chat] How to be copied into the future?

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Sun Apr 22 18:13:52 UTC 2007


At 10:08 AM 4/22/2007 -0700, Lee wrote:
>Damien wrote
>
> > Only if posthumans are godschmucked idiots will
> > they wish to retrieve Mother Teresa.
>
>Anyone who is not acquaited with Mother Teresa's
>multitudinous sins must read Christopher Hitchens.
>
>But does this mean that Mother Teresa should stay
>dead for *all* time if the power existed to bring her
>back to life?

That's an old thread, but I believe the original context selected MT 
as someone posthumans might go to some trouble to retrieve *due to 
her especial humanitarian merit*... which was my objection. It was 
like finding oneself in the Soviet Union half a century ago and 
hearing everyone babbling about the supreme virtue of Stalin. Well, 
perhaps not *quite* like that. :)

Damien Broderick 




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