X-Message-Number: 23678 From: "iamremotelymorty" <> References: <> Subject: Re: [CN] lab rats Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:05:50 +1000 Hi Ho All, Robert shared ... > "Christopher" worries that resuscitees may become "lab rats," or at best > remain forever an inferior subspecies, with no legal rights. Not worried, just see it as one (of many possibilities) viable and logical result in the future. > First of all, many people today do worry about the rights of lab rats, let > alone displaced aborigenes, and empathy and humane sentiments are likely to > increase, not decrease. Couldn't agree more; but it doesn't stop countless numbers of rats being experimented on and millions more being poisoned as they are seen as pests. It may be humane and worthy of empathy to treat people the right way, but it doesn't happen and it never will, based on the the simplist of excuses such as race, religion, fashion etc. What hope have genetically different folks got? > More importantly, the resuscitees will not remain in their primitive > condition, unless perhaps by choice. We will be retrofitted by a variety of > techniques, and will become as capable as anyone else, in our optimal scenario. Which I take it as being genetically modified to become equal. Which then begs the question of "are you you?" Who exactly is then living a longer, healthier life? And it still won't change the fact that you are a person from the 21st Century instead of whenever. And so people are going to react, probably negatively, accordingly, irrespective of whatever retrofit you have gone through. > Of course, the public relations aspects of such questions are difficult. Few > people want radical change--they just want the present, gold plated and > chocolate covered. Our recruitment emphasis should simply be on longer life and > better health. But it's not all bad. The folks of merry old England in the late 18th early 19th Century had the opportunity to migrate to Australia. If they didn't die on the journey there, they could face the "civilized" world already taken there by the English, one of convicts and soldiers, or they could face the native population who, from reports of the times, could do anything from help raise your children, to eating them and you (which is unture in case you are wondering) and yet people still went. People still took that great leap into the unknown to give it there best shot, despite knowing there was no one from family or friend there to meet them, nor any great certainty of survival, let alone wealth (unlike that of continental Nth America) and prosperity. It makes you wonder how such a trip was sold to them. Selling the transport is easy, it's the destination people want to know about. Rock On Christopher i am remotely morty http://www.users.bigpond.com/iamremotelymorty/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23678