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[[User:Kashami|Kashami]] 14:35, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
:I've edited this section to reflect your criticism and removed the neutrality tag. --[[User:Loremaster|Loremaster]] 14:55, 9 June 2006 (UTC) A great source for the sentence on Kalle Lasn: Walker, Ian. (2001) [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s409607.htm Cyborg Dreams: Beyond Human]. ABC Radio National --[[User:Loremaster|Loremaster]] 16:38, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
::I'm also concerned about the neutrality of the article. I'm not sure how noting that Bill Joy was influenced by Theodore Kaczynski addresses this. It seems to me to make it worse, putting a reasonable critic in the company of a crazy. Perhaps I misunderstand Loremaster's intention in doing this. Also, Transhumanism itself has an extremist, risk-taking side, which is not featured in the article. That is why, though I am philosophically very much out of tune with Natasha Vita-More, I have to agree with her that the tendency in the movement represented by Max More and Extropianism (which is prominent in discussion groups despite the dissolution of the EI) has been slighted. Finally, the point-counterpoint structure of the Criticisms section , where each criticism is met with a reasonable, precautionist-sounding WTA-inspired response, makes the whole thing sound very academic, with the transhumanists coming out as balanced and reasonable in all cases. A number of readers have commented on the pro-transhumanist tone of the way the criticisms are handled. But as the only non-TH sympathizer among the primary contributors, I have continually been out-voted when trying to change this. Given the criticism-response structure, then, it would be as legitimate, as a reflection of the spectrum of opinion in transhumanism, to deal with the Eugenics Wars argument, for example, by quoting the Nobelist James D. Watson to the effect that the problem with the German eugenics program was that in some cases they chose the wrong genotypes to eliminate. Or to deal with the human experimentation argument by countering with "no pain, no gain", which is essentially Gregory Stock's and Lee Silver's position. --[[User:StN|StN]] 16:07, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
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