Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading
by s73v3r_ on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @06:32PM
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"Are you suggesting we not save lives so that we can avoid some unrealized fear of overcrowding?"
No, and putting words in my mouth like that is extremely uncivil. We're talking about people who have already died.
"I find this argument both unimaginative (improving technology changes the nature of our challenges) and repulsive (it's advocating murder through inaction)."
And I find your tone repulsive and uncivil, as you're making extreme assumptions about my positions.
Not to mention, you're only advocating that we save the rich. I don't see you setting up a GoFundMe to preserve homeless people.
Suppose humanity attains indefinite life spans in the near future. Would you then advocate murder in order to save space?
Should we outlaw antibiotics because they save lives, and those lives take up resources?
I find this argument both unimaginative (improving technology changes the nature of our challenges) and repulsive (it's advocating murder through inaction).