X-Message-Number: 3265
Date: 14 Oct 94 05:32:31 EDT
From: "Steven B. Harris" <>
Subject: CRYONICS:Question of Character

Dear Cryonet:

    I wish to add something to Mike's post on the realities of
business, and note that the major "mistake" of Curtis Henderson
was simply committing the same error that everyone is forced into
most of the time due to lack of specific information or 
experience, which is imputing your own motives, values, and
ethics to other people.  For Curtis and Saul in the early days
running a shoestring cryonics organization, it was quite natural
to try to enlist help from any place they could get it.  One of
those likely places looked to them to be the relatives of frozen
people-- the thought being that such relatives would have a
vested interest in the fate of those frozen, and would, like Saul
or Curtis, continue to be responsible and pay the bills so long
as there was any money at all to pay them with, in order to
protect the potential for life which was being preserved.  Well,
Curtis and Saul were apparently wrong in this, but I find it
ironic that the fact that they WERE wrong in some of their key
assumptions about other people, is now being seen as evidence of
some kind of character flaw in Curtis and Saul.  If anything,
it's quite the other way.

                                         Steve Harris

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