Self-identified libertarian transhumanists, such as Ronald Bailey of Reason magazine and Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, are advocates of the asserted "right to human enhancement" who argue that the free market is the best guarantor of this right since it produces greater prosperity and personal freedom than other economic systems.[2][3]
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I am more of a free thinker than anything else. I don't necessarily advocate the ideas of transhumanism. However, I do find them interesting in that people are trying to find a way to make sure they own their own bodies so that they can then modify their bodies beyond just plastic surgery but also into forms of physical immortality.
If this were possible (and it very likely will be) people could theoretically live forever if they didn't have an accident along the way sometime. So, there would never be a guaranteed immortality but only based upon not having accidents of one kind or another. So, watching people try to create systems of government (Much like in the U.S. now) where this kind of thing more likely than anywhere else might occur first (because of it's laws) makes all this worth discussing with relatives and friends worldwide.
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