[ExI] Is Transhumanism Coercive?

[Stefano Vaj]

On 20 October 2011 20:05, Brent Allsop <brent.allsop at canonizer.com> wrote:
> The best way to fight this is to have explicit signed survey
> declarations, of the majority of expert transhumanists, so nobody can
> doubt that any “coercive transhumanists” are only a few uneducated
> extremists the majority of expert transhumanists repudiate.

But do they *exist* in the first place? Aren't you a little too quick
in conceding this point?

I would be hard pressed to find anybody actually advocating "coercive
life-extension", or "coercive enhancement", eg.

The closest thing I can imagine is those who resist deaf parents' wish
to select deliberately deaf embryos through pre-implantation
diagnosis. And while the jury may still be out on the subject I am not
sure that the majority of "expert transhumanists" are ready to
repudiate it without a second thought.

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Stefano Vaj