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"Chuck" <chuckfrasher@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> tom@morelife.org (Tom Matthews) wrote in message
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> > lagavril@midway.uchicago.edu (Leonid Gavrilov) wrote in message
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> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > May I ask for your advice on the following issue.
> > >
> > > Suppose you have a chance to be heard by high level policy-makers, and
> > > your recommendations on aging problem could be included in their
> > > documents for possible important policy decisions.
> > >
> > > (1) What would you say to them, so that to promote
> > > aging/life-extension research ?
> > >
> > > (2) How would you shape your phrases, so that they be accepted by
> > > conservative and skeptical policy-makers?
> >
> > When you are speaking to a group of people whose basic philosophy is
> > diametrically opposed to individual free choice, there is little that
> > you can say that will help. The best you can do is to exhort them all
> > to immediately eliminate all government laws restricting and
> > distorting reality, to resign their positions (which are paid from
> > stolen money anyway), and to convince all their brother policy-makers
> > to do the same. In other words, to get out of the way of progress in
> > life-extension and not derail it as they did with space exploration.
> > The only "policy" that should ever be made is that of free individuals
> > through their unrestricted (undistorted by government) purchasing
> > choices of goods and services. These are the people that you need to
> > speak to, not some free-loading, non-productive (of any goods or
> > services that anyone would voluntarily purchase) bureaucrats.
> >
> > --Paul Wakfer (was: Tom Matthews)
> >
> > MoreLife for the rational - http://morelife.org
> > Reality based tools for more life in quantity & quality
>
> Very well spoken!

You oughta start a club.