Andy Cooke: What group of people do you most think this world would be better without?

ColorStorm: republicans, religious fanatics, transhumanists
Andy Cooke: what are transhumanists?? :o
ColorStorm: people who want to augment the human form with technology. like cybernetic implants and stuff. i guess it's also people who want to "upload their consciousness to computers"
Andy Cooke: ohh, that's just weird, right? Why get rid of them?
ColorStorm: if transhumanism (in the sense of technological augmentations or replacements for human body parts) becomes the way of the future, we'll be a lot more unhappy
because we'll be (more) disconnected from nature. the human body and nature should be regarded as pristine and inviolable
what nature has designed is by far better than anything humans could do
people will just be taken in by the neat gains or perceived gains of such technology while not realizing what it subtly takes away
and i don't like transhumanists for not being able to see the value of the human form or of nature and for being technologistir
their sense of reality is too bleak and dead.
cybernetic parts aren't living things, and that's why replacing parts of us or augmenting us with them (thus partially absorbing our experience at the highest
level of nearness to self as possible into dead things) would take some of our life away. tranhumanists see the body as merely chemical, not life qua
life, which is, in the words of gene ray, stupid and evil.
Andy Cooke: Where does transhumanism start? Pacemakers?
ColorStorm: I don't know, good question. Although it's worse if it's gratuitous instead of solving a medical problem. Though even that's kinda bad, we'll end up medically dependent on cybernetic implants on a mass scale, due to genetic drift, if we don't let natural selection take its course. That goes for pills and a lot of other medicinal technology too, though. But at least pills don't make you partially non-living.
but yeah i don't know where it exactly starts or if i would be against pacemakers.. it's hard to deny people things that can prevent illness and death, even if
it's going to bite us in the ass in the long run.