X-Message-Number: 23531
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 08:59:01 -0600
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Subject: Paul Wakfer

Are you suggesting Alcor and CI show your style of leadership by pouting, 
running, away, and hiding?   I personally am proud of Alcor's "maturity" in 
this matter.  Given how government works (those of us in the real world, 
who have to deal with real people, not dreamers, know that the government 
regulates (taxes) all aspects of life, to think anything else is simply 
naive), Alcor chose the correct path, realizing regulation is inevitable, 
getting the best deal possible...

I think all of us can learn that you have to pick your battles, Alcor could 
have simply fought tooth and nail to get all attempts at legislation 
killed, thereby making us look lees compromising, more militant, and simply 
more "kooky".  Honestly guys, we need to look a lot less kooky, and a lot 
more "normal".

Anyway, this kind of childish attitude is what makes me ashamed to be a 
cryonicist.  I live in the real world, and some of these utopian fantasies 
are what get us in trouble, drives "normal" people away, and causes 
division in our ranks.  This attitude, IMO, will not be missed.

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