X-Message-Number: 31281
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:49:38 -0700
From: "Charles Platt" <>
Subject: The danger of being a community

Rudi writes,

"As a cryonicist, I  agree with others who have pointed out that we
need a 'big tent' orientation in  this small community.  (Sorry for
the use of "community" here,   Charles Platt...'group' or 'movement'
is too grandiose for this nascent  upstart.)"

But Rudi, if you avoid thinking in any of those terms, the problem goes away.

If we are not a movement, group, or community, you don't have to think
in terms of possible persecution by the pope or anyone else. How much
better for us just to be individuals exercising a choice regarding a
form of medical care.

I dislike and distrust groupthink. First, it justifies actions that
individuals often would not take on their own. And second, it
identifies the group as a target for other groups.

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