The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

ah, sorry i misunderstood (i was actually surprised, it didn't seem like you were *remotely* team cockroach, at all, in any of our discourse!) tho, i would argue that abolishing biology is a spook, too ems are biological- they require sustenance, and arguably would reproduce

Sunlight or nuclear power don't require death though. The electrons are going to radiate anyway. The stars are going to die one day anyway.

carbon fuels don't *necessarily* require death, either (i mean, except plants, millions of years ago, but that's not an obvious moral consideration) but biological scarcity, with quadrillions of ems vying for life, isn't necessarily solved

True. And I suppose there is a hint of wishful thinking there. But I am in hell, and refuse to abandon hope.

dude, how much of your hell is a call to self-overcoming, rather than a call to overcoming some malignant external reality it's easy to be pessimistic when your locus-of-control is wholly externalized, and your will is always thwarted!

I can't not be transsexual, nor can I even modify my body sufficiently. If technologies emerged that made this possible I wouldn't be able to afford them. And I would still be trapped in a largely hostile society.

here's a perspective: even three decades ago *we couldn't even consider that this might be a problem we should solve* we *create* these problems i'm not saying they aren't real, but if we solved *this*, another, just as dire would rise up, that we wouldn't even understand today

and this is *good*! the world isn't bad without us, it's only our hope and created meaning that allows us to judge it bad! the malignancy of the world is wholly dependent on our flourishing and greater power to expect better! the world be malignant is what we *want*