Have you noticed? Those who imagine virtual-reality utopias inhabited by “uploaded” human beings repeat the mistakes of those who used to imagine actual-reality utopias inhabited by flesh and blood. To think all problems will be solved by “consensual” virtual reality is like thinking that in the real world all problems will be solved by “consensual” government. If virtual reality could be anything that was desired, then it would be anything that someone desired.
Two stickers, seen on the same bumper of the same van in Austin, Texas:
#1: Stop the Dissections: Have Respect for Life.
#2: Pro-Choice and Proud of It.
"Government does not rest on force. Government is force; it rests on consent or a conception of justice.” -- G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With the World
“Adultery is bad morals, but divorce is bad metaphysics.” -- Charles Williams
The Freudian term “sublimation” has come to be used carelessly for two relationships between high and low, relationships which are not only different but even opposite to each other. I illustrate with sex, his obsession.
