"A holy heavenly life spent in the service of God, and in communion with Him, is, without doubt, the most pleasant and comfortable life any man can live in this world." - Matthew Henry
Hello to the blogging world. I hope that this page can turn into a forum that facilitates spiritual growth. By the Grace of God, I trust that we can participate in reasonable disputations and learn from our misunderstandings of eachother and varied viewpoints. I hope that this blog will be a safe-haven for the pursuit of truth in a world that often denies the existence of certitude.
He [James Hughes] argues that we must replace the notion of humanity with the concept of "personhood"... "Under personhood theory, some humans would be excluded, but all self-aware entities – whether human, post-human, machine, chimera, or robot – would qualify for the rights, privileges, and protections of citizenship."
posted by Austin | 1:45 AM
3 Comments:
Austin--
This is from the site you linked:
Indeed, the real problem is that the very urge and desire to eclipse human limitations is an act of defiance grounded in profound ingratitude.
How does one define the "human limitations" that are being eclipsed? From the first conscious spark of human personhood until today, we have, as humans, been daily surpassing our "limitations." Would Mr. Mohler extend his logic to medical treatment as well? After all, the original humans had no means of killing cancer or of transplating organs. When it comes down to it, the line which Mr. Mohler is attempting to tow is invisible as a comprehensive application of his argument against transhumanism would inevitably resign humanity to its pre-historic days of cave-and-field substistence living for these, after all, are the "natural" limitations of the human being.
At the core of transhumanism is a basic hatred of humanity.
How does this follow? Is giving life to the dying an act of hatred? Again, if Mr. Mohler's logic is extended comprehensively, the most "loving" act would be to withhold all medical treatment from the sick and dying, for the science of medicine eclipses the natural "limitations" of the human body.
The true humanists are those who accept with gratitude the gift of true humanity.
Which is what? What is "true" humanity? Every single one of us alive today is not "true"--we have been vaccinized, immunized, etc. Our entire existences are marked by artificial means of protection and health. Should we consider these as hatred of humanity also? It is clear that Mr. Mohler has not thought through his position very clearly, or has at least not bothered to comprehensively extend the logic of his argument beyond the unilateral denunciation of transhumanism.
Exist,
All great questions/comments. I hope you don't think that I am "deflecting" your comments. But it would unwise of me to speak on behalf of Dr. Mohler. I bet that if you are really interested he would love to dialogue with you.
Austin
"Transhumanism" sounds like a bunch of baloney. If we follow it's logic then we could say that the micro-organisms in my stool deserve equal rights. Smells funny to me... ...
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