Posted to Facebook with this intro:
Extropia DaSilvo : "I think it is a mistake to think of transhumanism as being primarily concerned with immortality. No, what transhumanism is mostly concerned with is choice or rather the lack of it. Our bodies, our minds, our cultures, impose all kinds of restraints on us, limiting our ability to choose for ourselves what kind of people we want to be. The main purpose of transhumanism is to challenge the idea that any limit, any constraint, is permanent and unbreakable. That is not to say it is a belief system which proclaims 'anything goes'. To be a serious transhumanist, one must believe in the rights of others to seek and adopt their own idealised self, lifestyle and community. Thus, transhumanism is as far removed from the eugenics movement (which is about a small group of people imposing their notions of what a person should be on everybody else) as any belief system can get."