Libertarian transhumanism

Libertarian transhumanism is a political ideology synthesizing libertarianism and transhumanism.^[1]
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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Libertarian transhumanists believe that the principle of self-ownership is the most fundamental idea from which both libertarianism and transhumanism stem. They are rational egoists and ethical egoists who embrace the prospect of using emerging technologies to enhance human capacities, which they believe stems from the self-interested application of reason and will in the context of the individual freedom to achieve a posthuman state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. They extend this rational and ethical egoism to advocate a form of "biolibertarianism".<sup>[2]

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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.</sup>