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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:00:07 EDT
Subject: Morgan's misreading

Joesph Morgan wrote:


> Robert Ettinger, Cryonet 16998: "From the broadest perspective, no one 
deserves >blame (or credit either) for 
> anything at all. We each do what we can and what we must, no more and no 
less. >No one made himself, and no one created his own environment--we are 
all equally >victims or beneficiaries of blind chance."
 
> I can't believe you said that.  
 
 >This is Dr. Feel Good psycho-babble. Someone could rationalize (but not 
justify) >any type of action, no matter how foul, with this sort of 
reasoning.  
 
 >We do have free will and we are responsible for our actions.  
 
 >Joseph W. Morgan.

I can't believe Mr. Morgan could misunderstand so badly, and suggest he 
please look at it again. "Feel Good"? Why should the putative absence of 
fundamental choice make anybody feel good? On the contrary, the whole point 
of almost everything I have written is that choices are difficult and 
complicated.

I won't repeat further here, except to say once more that we have free will 
on a conscious level only--that is all that is possible, and all that is 
necessary.

The bottom line is that while there's life (even potential life) there's hope.

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society
http://www.cryonics.org
 
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