X-Message-Number: 29111
From: Mark Winston <>
Subject: Free Speech, Personal Choice, etc
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 07:34:21 -0800

Free Speech, Personal Choice, etc.

Please keep in mind in this current quarrel over what is or is not  
viable discussion on a cryonics forum that cryonics is only about  
freezing humans and reviving them. We may be politicians or  
philosophers in our own time, but we're posting to this medium to  
discuss cryonics and issues directly related to it, not politics or  
philosophy which cannot be directly tied to cryonics. The assumption  
that being a cryonicist subscribes one to a certain collective of  
values and beliefs is flawed but has been repeated in most defenses  
of this thread.

We may not all share the same values, politics and philosophy -  
considering that any human anywhere can be a cryonicist, it is  
foolish to assume that people on a cryonics list will all support  
standardized liberal Western values (which seem to be what those  
individuals posting to this thread are advocating, in general). The  
only politics we probably have in common is the desire for our  
government(s) to allow us to perform cryonics (and even this  
statement may not be entirely universal!).

Therefore, I also ask that this issue be expunged from this medium  
(and I understand that I am not helping the cause my posting another  
opinion about it). I just don't think the above perspective can be  
emphasized enough: What one man considers his human rights and  
liberties may be considered criminal by another man, and there is a  
possibility that both those men are cryonicists!

MW

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