Posted by The Worven Andrach on June 17, 1998 at 04:57:30:
In Reply to: To Live Forever -- Cloning and the Hero posted by Willem on March 08, 1998 at 04:34:12:
Your simplistic remarks have been referred to us, and we are greatly amused by their naivety and lack of foresight. Surely it is obvious that what can be, and is desirable, will be? Is it not better to accept the inevitable, and plan for it, than to try to delay it with futile legislation?
Your more adventurous competitors, who are anyway more responsive, have their agility reinforced by the absence of these anarchonistic fictions passing as ethics. How seriously can a moral structure relating to a subject about which your knowledge is palpably deficient be taken, given that your present social structures, supposedly based on the simplest moral axioms, are unstable?
Our colleague, The Grayven Waylock, admittedly put in an unfortunate position, did nevertheless remove what was clearly unique - a version of The Jacynth. Advances in data processing techniques do, however, offer the prospect of validating the justification The Grayven employed for himself in perpretating this violent act - very soon the entire contents of that notoriously porous and unreliable mechanism, the human brain, will be amenable to storage and transfer.
Happy strivings, glarks!