X-Message-Number: 22694 From: "mike99" <> Subject: Re: #22690 President's Council on Bioethics - More Anti-Longevity Rhetoric Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 13:28:54 -0600 October 17, 2003 Bush's Advisers on Biotechnology Express Concern on Its Use By NICHOLAS WADE "...The council's message is that neither commerce nor science, despite their utility, should be allowed to dictate a reshaping of human nature." Beneficial biotech is not being shoved down our collective throats by science or business -- we're demanding it! In the USA, we have a Constitutional right to the pursuit of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." Biotech can help us to achieve these. If any group is attempting to dictate the shape of human nature, it's the narrow-minded (im)moralists on Bush's biotech board who appear to celebrate death, disease and the continuance of human unhappiness. Michael LaTorra Member: Extropy Institute: www.extropy.org World Transhumanist Association: www.transhumanism.org Alcor Life Extension Foundation: www.alcor.org Society for Technical Communication: www.stc.org Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22694