X-Message-Number: 22898 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:41:57 -0500 From: Jeffrey Soreff <> Subject: Re: #22893: We are alone [David Pizer] >Now we need something along that line to support physical >immortality, which is the honest position for most of us to take. The simplest argument that I make along these lines is: Politically, the USA is rather ambivalent about the death penalty. There is popular support for applying it to particularly gruesome crimes, but garden variety murderers are not being given garden variety executions. Biodeathicists are proposing to make excessive age a capital crime, enforced by laws prohibiting treatments for aging. This is not mildly unjust - it is grotesquely unjust, treating a grandmother peacefully sitting on her rocking chair as if she were equivalent to Timothy McVeigh. Best wishes, -Jeff Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=22898