From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2009-04-13T09:42:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Goodbye Ruby - Hello Earth

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On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 10:06:07PM +0900, Robert Dober wrote:
> I think I understand much better what all of you meant now. There
> seems to be a very conservative green movement I am not aware of and I
> am certainly disagreeing with. OTOH I am quite more critique to some
> other points. Why should we agree on all those points? We should not
> of course! It also seems that I interpreted OP's intentions quite
> differently than some of you.
> My final statement on this is, that although I value biodiversity and
> conversation of the natural conditions very much, I might just value
> diversity of thought and freedom of opinion a tad more, even if it
> leads to the extinction of our species, because I believe it is one of
> the greatest achievements of our species. Hopefully these values are
> not incompatible.

I tend to think that only by encouraging technological innovation will
the human race (or its evolutionary descendants, at least) have any
chance of surviving more than a couple hundred million years -- and it
may be due for an end much sooner.  The biggest argument in favor of
allowing technological innovation to progress, in my opinion, is
something else entirely, though:

Technological innovation is an unavoidable consequence of free thinking,
and anyone trying to stifle free thinking is, in my opinion, an enemy of
the single most valuable characteristic the human race possesses.

--=20
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
My first programming koan: If a lambda has the ability to access its
context, but there isn't any context to access -- is it still a closure?

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