Re: >H Fleshsculpting

[Nic Healey <nic@ia.com.au>]

Transhuman Mailing List

>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.

That, in my view, (and phrased as such) is almost a human rights abuse. But
it's happening now in many ways. People still smoking while pregnant, or
drinking. People have been doing things to themselves for years that we are
only just starting to understand the genetic ramifications of. Also, its
not just a case of "their unborn children" - it's everybodies gene pool on
some level.
Of course, this sentiment cannot truly be policed in any form. More
importantly, should it be policed?

Nic Healey
(yes, this is my official 'delurk')




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