From: Walpurgis (walpurg@myrealbox.com)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 04:45:54 MDT
[kharin posted]
> Mary Warnock
> Tuesday May 15, 2001
> The Guardian
<snip>
> And this fragility of course extends to our notion of ourselves. If
> prolonging our lives indefinitely were really on the cards, then I for
> one would wish to legislate against it on the grounds that all men are
> mortal, and to deny this would be to deny our very understanding of
> the world.
How typical of Warnock. How dare she suggest legislative moves to deny the
choice of others. If she doesn't want to live longer, than she doesn't have to. "I for
one" would happily be sterilised in return for immortality (or even a lengthened
youth/health for 10 years). Immortality would not result in overcrowding -
reproduction would!
Her grounds for legislation are also nonsensical. If humans were to become
immortal (or have that chance), then all men (sic) would *not* be mortal!
The idea that morality defines our humanity is absurd - especially when faced with
these possibilities. Warnocks embrace of death and her reaction against a re-
definition of the human situation is evidence of a diseased, and moribund mind.
Walpurgis
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