[ExI] Reframing transhumanism as good vs. evil

[Ben Zaiboc]

AlgaeNymph <algaenymph at gmail.com> asked:


> 
> A while age in college, I was in a speech class where one
> of the things 
> we did was have a group critique our ideas.  I had an
> idea to speak 
> about transhumanism, to which one of my classmates rather
> indignantly 
> asked me why I wanted to advocate biotech enhancement
> instead of medicine.
> 
> That's the problem we have.  Even when we're not seen
> as evil, we're 
> seen as selfish nerds who are utterly indifferent to
> it.  The sad thing 
> is I find myself almost believing this.  Causes that
> comedians can't 
> brand as outright evil or obvious spin are pretty much
> about fighting 
> evil and/or saving innocents.  Citizen heroics,
> basically.
> 
> What kind of citizen heroics do *we* have?


You've got to be joking.

What's more heroic than saving the lives of 100,000 people a day?

Even superman is never shown doing that.


Ben Zaiboc