ahab as luddite

[Mutualcode at aol.com]

If I was pretending you wouldn't have seen it. I chose not to 
continue along the literary tact, but to highlight how different
the world has become since Cervantes and Melville, and even GR, 
for that matter. The change has outpaced the ability of society
to deal with it ethically before it is too late.  

In a message dated 2/2/02 6:33:12 AM, jbor at bigpond.com writes:

<< on 2/2/02 10:11 PM, Mutualcode at aol.com at Mutualcode at aol.com wrote:

>> What do you mean by- "A separate issue, of course."?

>I mean that "spinach whales" and "fibre-optic" horses - i.e.
>"bio-technology" - is a "separate issue" to the content of my post, which
>you were pretending to respond to.


>>Whose ethics do
>>you think ought to be questioned?

>Humans. As opposed to the "stop bio-technology now" extremist crap.

You are sounding a rather extreme note, here. I entered this thread 
lamenting that "bio-technology" in this case genetic engineering, could
not be stopped. I am not so unsympathetic to those that fear 
where it's leading us all, though, to merely dismiss them as something other
than human. The men and women in Blicero's entourage seem to have 
had more freedom than those of us who are concerned by recent 
developements in bio-technology, despite the voluminous amount of
discussion that has already taken place regarding its ethical implications.



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