Re: >H Fleshsculpting

[Jsn@concentric.net]

Transhuman Mailing List


You line lengths runneth over.

> With the advent of genetic engineering it will be possible to
> rearange bodyparts in the most radical ways immaginable. Artists will
> be drawn to this possibility seeing it as a new medium for
> expression... In short it will be possible to create living picassos.
> I myself might try my hand at it. So what happens is that people are
> created that have comfortable healthy but absurdly impractical
> bodies. What do we do with these creations? Do we allow them? What do
> we do to the artist?

People deserve to get whatever the ask for-- good and hard.  
Someone wants to sculpt his body in a new and unusual fashion, that's
not my concern as long as he's not hurting someone else.  It's also
not my concern when he suddenly realizes that he has too little or
too much surface area for efficient, effective perspiration, that his
bones are too long or too short for the proper mechanical advantages,
and so forth.

_That_ is a trivial question.

The more interesting question is, what do we do about people who have
no clue about practical concerns, who "bequeath" such absurdities to
their unborn children.

-- 
John S. Novak, III           jsn@cris.com
The Humblest Man on the Net

***************************************************************************
* If you need to unsubscribe, send email saying "unsubscribe transhuman"  *
* to majordomo@logrus.org, without the quotes, from the SAME email address*
* as the one you subscribed under! Yes, it is case-sensitive. Don't blame *
* the admin for your spelling errors.                                     *
*                  Please email all technical problems to                 *
*               owner-transhuman@logrus.org, NOT to the list.             *
***************************************************************************