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.
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