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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 09:10:03 EST
Subject: lab rats

"Christopher" worries that resuscitees may become "lab rats," or at best 
remain forever an inferior subspecies, with no legal rights.

First of all, many people today do worry about the rights of lab rats, let 
alone displaced aborigenes, and empathy and humane sentiments are likely to 
increase, not decrease.

More importantly, the resuscitees will not remain in their primitive 
condition, unless perhaps by choice. We will be retrofitted by a variety of 
techniques, and will become as capable as anyone else, in our optimal scenario.

Of course, the public relations aspects of such questions are difficult. Few 
people want radical change--they just want the present, gold plated and 

chocolate covered. Our recruitment emphasis should simply be on longer life and
better health.

Robert Ettinger


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