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From: "iamremotelymorty" <>
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Subject: Re: [CN] lab rats
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:05:50 +1000

Hi Ho All,

Robert shared ...

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

Not worried, just see it as one (of many possibilities) viable and logical
result in the future.

> 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.

Couldn't agree more; but it doesn't stop countless numbers of rats being
experimented on and millions more being poisoned as they are seen as pests.
It may be humane and worthy of empathy to treat people the right way, but it
doesn't happen and it never will, based on the the simplist of excuses such
as race, religion, fashion etc. What hope have genetically different folks
got?

> 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.

Which I take it as being genetically modified to become equal. Which then
begs the question of "are you you?" Who exactly is then living a longer,
healthier life? And it still won't change the fact that you are a person
from the 21st Century instead of whenever. And so people are going to react,
probably negatively, accordingly, irrespective of whatever retrofit you have
gone through.

> 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.

But it's not all bad. The folks of merry old England in the late 18th early
19th Century had the opportunity to migrate to Australia. If they didn't die
on the journey there, they could face the "civilized" world already taken
there by the English, one of convicts and soldiers, or they could face the
native population who, from reports of the times, could do anything from
help raise your children, to eating them and you (which is unture in case
you are wondering) and yet people still went. People still took that great
leap into the unknown to give it there best shot, despite knowing there was
no one from family or friend there to meet them, nor any great certainty of
survival, let alone wealth (unlike that of continental Nth America) and
prosperity. It makes you wonder how such a trip was sold to them.

Selling the transport is easy, it's the destination people want to know
about.

Rock On
Christopher

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