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 Jan 17 2008, 05:48 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 164 Joined: 9-December 04 From: former Bug City, now CFS Member No.: 6,875  |
Light-framed people make better distance runners. It's a straight mechanical advantage, and has nothing to do with your skin color.
Anyway, you think Kid Stealth, I mean, prosthetic legs are impressive? I wonder how long it will be until the Olympics are going to pass a ruling on nanotechnology. |
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Jan 17 2008, 07:23 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,206 Joined: 9-July 06 From: Fresno, CA Member No.: 8,856 |
That article seems to not include why that point is passed.
Somehow BIID makes elective amputation a closed subject? I don't understand. |
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Jan 17 2008, 07:39 PM
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Street Doc Group: Admin Posts: 3,508 Joined: 2-March 04 From: Neverwhere Member No.: 6,114 |
I think he is saying that we have already reached the point where elective amputation has entered into our social consciousness because there are already people who are willing to do it.
It should be noted however that apotemnophiliacs (people with BIID) don't want their limb to be replaced with a more functional prosthesis. The whole point is they feel like they should be amputees, so its not really the same thing. It will be different when rational people without any mental illness (as I believe apotemnophilia is) willingly choose to undergo amputation to gain the benefits of an improved cybernet limb. And interestingly enough, one of the main activists for BIID is a psychoanalyst named Gregg Furth who is also an apotemnophiliac. He and Robert Smith (a Scottish surgeon who actually performed a few of these amputations before the NHS shut him down) wrote a book about it. Oh, and if you're still curious Demerzel there is an interesting article about it. |
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Jan 17 2008, 07:42 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Because people are already getting elective amputations. Thus, the question of when people will begin to have elective amputations has already been answered; it was some time ago. |
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Jan 17 2008, 07:46 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,206 Joined: 9-July 06 From: Fresno, CA Member No.: 8,856 |
It happened out of this context however, so the issue of when will people start elective amputations in favor of atrificial limbs for an advantage in sports isn't answered by BIID.
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Jan 18 2008, 06:04 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 588 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 227 |
LOL. But you do have to wonder why you don't see those same guys dominating the long distance bike races. They clearly have the aerobic capacity to do so. |
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