X-Message-Number: 1596 Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 23:10:27 -0500 From: Alexander Chislenko <> Subject: CRYONICS: Ideas and threats (just a little more). Believing that true cryonicists should clear their brains before suspension, I'll allow myself another remark on ideas and threats: David S Pizer writes: > Thanks to Paul Wakefer for correcting me. What I should have said is > that bad ideas that get implemeted can be a threat. methink: bad ideas *implemented* are *harm*. threat by definition is a promise of harm; threat implemented is harm. harm may be observed in the material world (though ideas can also harm other ideas, e.g. Paul's ideas harmed David's); threat as promise / possibility / tendency is never a material object (though it can be associated with them) threat *is* an idea. If you disagree, try to pose a threat to me without giving me any idea of threat and without ever implementing it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Alexander Chislenko | | Cambridge, MA | (617) 864-3382 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1596