The Purity First is the same as the Humanity Front, the only different is that Humanity Front is much less extreme, for example, Humanity Front would peacefully protest and politically attack cooperation, but Purity First would aggressively protest using violent attack both physically and technologically. I will start this post with the Purity First's propaganda video.
The main point of Purity First's attack on human augmentation is that are we playing God? The man in the interview says that if we do not augment our selves, then we will be less intelligent, less stronger, and less capable than the rest of the human race. No one would want to get left behind when the rest of human race are improving rapidly while you are staying at the same place; therefore, this will automatically persuade people to get augments, thus increasing population of the augmented. By getting augmented, you are sacrificing your freedom and privacy. Implanting data chips and getting various kinds of augmentations give away huge amount of informations regardless of your willingness; they would know everything you do at anytime any where. Also by admitting to neuropozyne, you are sacrificing your freedom to drugs only to maintain your augmentations; every seconds of your life will be depending on neuropozyne and without it, you might die.Cooperation have the power to make and persuade you to get augmentations, and after you are augmented, they have to power to know everything you do and anywhere you go at any time in your life; they also have the power to control your life through neuropozyne, they can shut down your limbs, they can sent messages to the data chips in your brain and control your thoughts, "as if they have the power of God."
Though I agreed that depending my life on drugs and having people spying on me at all time is not a very good idea, those cases are too extreme. Neuropozyne is only temporary; like Megan's discovery, human will always find a way to overcome obstacles, in this case drugs. One day, someone will be able to develop a technology that allows us to be free from neuropozyne and live free from drugs. Also about cooperation able to get informations and turning off our body parts, through proper attention on augmentation laws, which I think will certainly have, I think that those cases will never happen. Human privacy is one of the things that are value the most, therefore, government will never allow cooperation to have access to our personal informations unless we accept terms and agreements. If government suspects that cooperation will violate this law or decide to access our augmentations without permission, then government, with support of all citizens, could create an entirely new government department to specialize in keeping track of cooperation's activities.
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The main point of Purity First's attack on human augmentation is that are we playing God? The man in the interview says that if we do not augment our selves, then we will be less intelligent, less stronger, and less capable than the rest of the human race. No one would want to get left behind when the rest of human race are improving rapidly while you are staying at the same place; therefore, this will automatically persuade people to get augments, thus increasing population of the augmented. By getting augmented, you are sacrificing your freedom and privacy. Implanting data chips and getting various kinds of augmentations give away huge amount of informations regardless of your willingness; they would know everything you do at anytime any where. Also by admitting to neuropozyne, you are sacrificing your freedom to drugs only to maintain your augmentations; every seconds of your life will be depending on neuropozyne and without it, you might die.Cooperation have the power to make and persuade you to get augmentations, and after you are augmented, they have to power to know everything you do and anywhere you go at any time in your life; they also have the power to control your life through neuropozyne, they can shut down your limbs, they can sent messages to the data chips in your brain and control your thoughts, "as if they have the power of God."Though I agreed that depending my life on drugs and having people spying on me at all time is not a very good idea, those cases are too extreme. Neuropozyne is only temporary; like Megan's discovery, human will always find a way to overcome obstacles, in this case drugs. One day, someone will be able to develop a technology that allows us to be free from neuropozyne and live free from drugs. Also about cooperation able to get informations and turning off our body parts, through proper attention on augmentation laws, which I think will certainly have, I think that those cases will never happen. Human privacy is one of the things that are value the most, therefore, government will never allow cooperation to have access to our personal informations unless we accept terms and agreements. If government suspects that cooperation will violate this law or decide to access our augmentations without permission, then government, with support of all citizens, could create an entirely new government department to specialize in keeping track of cooperation's activities.
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So humans aren't playing God. It is the corporations that have the ultimate control and tracking ability. Sounds a bit familiar doesn't it?
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