I’ve mentioned before that one of the things that bothers me about virtually all communities is that they consistently wish to say, “Our community is good and yours is bad,” and this leads to interpreting things as opposed which should be interpreted as being along the same lines. It seems to me that the irritation which is expressed in some of the comments here with the idea of associating religion and transhumanism is an expression of this tendency, and I therefore find myself irritated by that irritation.
The post links to an essay by a former Christian who says that she found herself attracted to transhumanism for reasons similar to which she was originally attracted to Christianity. Saying that there could not possibly be any similarities of motives or conclusions or consequences or character, because my community must be as distant as possible from yours, does not respect that person’s experience, which is just as real even if it is not universal.
Yeah, as if different groups of people couldn’t independently have a honest desire to improve their living conditions, even if they have wildly different models of the world, and consequently different strategies to achieve that outcome.
I’ve mentioned before that one of the things that bothers me about virtually all communities is that they consistently wish to say, “Our community is good and yours is bad,” and this leads to interpreting things as opposed which should be interpreted as being along the same lines. It seems to me that the irritation which is expressed in some of the comments here with the idea of associating religion and transhumanism is an expression of this tendency, and I therefore find myself irritated by that irritation.
The post links to an essay by a former Christian who says that she found herself attracted to transhumanism for reasons similar to which she was originally attracted to Christianity. Saying that there could not possibly be any similarities of motives or conclusions or consequences or character, because my community must be as distant as possible from yours, does not respect that person’s experience, which is just as real even if it is not universal.
Yeah, as if different groups of people couldn’t independently have a honest desire to improve their living conditions, even if they have wildly different models of the world, and consequently different strategies to achieve that outcome.
Religious people are irrational, but not evil.