X-Message-Number: 22657
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:14:02 +0200
Subject: Re: a safe haven for cryonics?
From: David Stodolsky <>

On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 12:03  PM, John de Rivaz wrote:

>
> Over the period likely to be required before reanimations are possible
> legislatures may well change their views. As I have said previously, a 
> lot
> of this depends on whether individuals with power decide that their 
> personal
> careers or financial positions can be improved by attacking cryonics. 
> If
> these individuals also have persuasive ability, such as Stalin or 
> Hitler,
> then whatever the logic cryonics can be wiped out in their country. 
> Just as
> a supernova can explode in a galaxy and bathe it in life destroying
> radiation, so can such an individual appear in any legislature 
> anywhere.
> Therefore no one country is intrinsically safer than any other over 
> long
> time periods.

While this is generally true, failing to recognize the differences in 
stability of different countries would be an error. The power of single 
persons is limited in democratic states, however, as recently seen, 
this is honored more often in speech than in practice.


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