H+, the new transhumanist magazine, is completely delightful. In addition to updates on eye jewelry and subcutaneous digital phone implants (no batteries; they run off your blood supply — sustainable!), we get this rant from Joe Quirk:
Here’s another moral imperative you transhumanist fools haven’t considered: we owe something to people who don’t exist yet. People who don’t exist yet are waiting in line to take our places. They can’t do that unless we die. Don’t nonexistent people have rights? Damn right they do. The right to demand our deaths. Luckily, nonexistent people have Bill McKibben and Frances Fukayama speaking up for their right to kill you. Which they can’t do, since they don’t exist. So Kass and Fukayama will kill you for them, by legislating against doctors interfering with your long slow death.
More please.
Joe Quirk wrote:
“They can’t do that unless we die. Don’t nonexistent people have rights? Damn right they do. ”
Ummm… no, I don’t think nonexistent people have rights.
Does Joe Quirk also believe an embryo has rights?
norman doering is a mouthbreathing idiot who doesn’t understand satire.
In the interests of consistency, I say we also give rights to the children who may have been born if only you would have married that high-school sweetheart instead of that “other” person you met years later. I think reparations are in order.
In defense, it wasn’t the best satire.
This is irrelevent though, since Obama won we don’t need transhumanism. We’ll have utopia in the US and then the world in the next 8 years.