X-Message-Number: 416 From att!compuserve.com!73647.1215 Fri Aug 30 02:42:13 EDT 1991 Date: 30 Aug 91 02:39:30 EDT From: Thomas Donaldson <> To: <whscad1!> Subject: Re: cryonics #407 - Moderation and USENET Dear David: One of the (often unrealized) problems about freedom of speech is exactly that of whether one time or place is "proper" for discussing particular issues. Yes, that's a fuzzy question. However political comments of a general kind do have other times and places where they are entirely acceptable. In fact, it would probably spread the ideas of cryonics if cryonicists were to start discussing such political questions in POLITICAL forums. Also: true, if the political problems were solved, then the rest of our problems would be solved or well on the way. The same may be said of the scientific, regulatory, organizational, recruiting, and other problems. Those of us who feel that abstract (not particular issues about, say, how best to bring State Senator Watson to our point of view) discussion is unlikely to prove the best road to cryonics and immortality express that by saying this is not the time or place for debates about abstract politics ie. libertarianism of various kinds. As for my own opinion, libertarians exist in far more numbers than cryon- icists, and have been publicly putting their opinions for much longer. It isn't at all clear that things will move faster if cryonicists dropped their other activities to join such agitation (an understatement!). Best and long life Thomas From att!compuserve.com!73647.1215 Fri Aug 30 03:12:35 EDT 1991 Date: 30 Aug 91 03:07:28 EDT From: Thomas Donaldson <> To: <whscad1!> Subject: Re: cryonics #413 - Moderation and Politics RIGHT ON! Alan. Thomas Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=416