X-Message-Number: 26457
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 11:17:10 -0400
From: Robin Helweg-Larsen <>
Subject: Re: Pizer's lawsuit proposal
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Religion is treated in a strangely different manner in the United States, 
compared with the rest of the developed world.  Religion is a threat to peace, 
reason and progress, but it is intimately connected with the culture of the 
United States, and the US is a huge force for reason and progress (if not 
peace), as demonstrated by the origins and strength of the cryonics movement in 
the US.


Speaking from my experience of having lived in 8 countries and holding or having
held passports from Canada, the UK, Denmark, Australia and Jamaica, I would say
that David Stodolsky's attitudes towards religion, politics and society are 
well represented in the first 4 countries, and the range of American attitudes 
is more in line with Jamaica.


I agree that a vigilante response to a lawsuit could well jeopardize the 
physical safety of cryonics institutions, personnel, and suspended patients.  
The United States is a tolerant society with many extremely intolerant 
subcultures.  I think the proposed lawsuit itself is an intolerant response to 
the existing situation.


Our futures will be brighter when we are less reliant on the United States for 
cryonic suspension.

Robin HL

Happy Canada Day.   

(And yes, I've been living in the US for the past 14 years....)

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