X-Message-Number: 18508 From: "Mark Plus" <> Subject: The pro-death coalition Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 09:58:52 -0800 Robert Ettinger asks: >Message #18500 From: Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 10:00:41 EST Subject: Soreff, Kass >Jeff Soreff mentions: >> >the head of the US's "bioethics" council, > >Leon Kass, is on record as opposing lifespan extending research. >Could we have a citation on this, please? Virginia Postrel has written quite a lot about Leon Kass and his retrograde views. E.g., link to, http://www.dynamist.com/forbes/prodeath.html I've noticed from news accounts I've read about Kass that he seems impressed by the bad consequences of biotechnology presented in arbitrarily constructed fictional stories, for example, Aldous Huxley's _Brave New World_. (Though I don't see what's so horrible about BNW, to be honest.) I would have thought that adults are generally able to distinguish real from make-believe characters and situations, but apparently not Kass. His choice of literary warnings seems conveniently silent about the evils of "borg" technology, however. Otherwise what would he have to say about Dick Cheney's implanted defibrillator and Rush Limbaugh's cochlear implant? Mark Plus _________________________________________________________________ Join the world s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18508