Johannis
Amarr
Ordo Crucis Argenteus
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Posted - 2007.03.23 13:07:00 -
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Edited by: Johannis on 23/03/2007 13:04:36
In a way, an intresting opinion.
Though, primarily I would count the letter in question as a demonstration of blissful ignorance of all things Amarr. So ardent seems to be this "Cosmopolite" of his transhumanism, that he has forgotten his origins, for I doubt that the Amarr institutions awarding the licences which are the requirement for his endeavours as a "free" captain would have forgotten to educate him in the basic tenets.
The road of Man is not yet in its end. This is the task of Amarr as I see it: To guide the Men into prosperity, to return Humanity into its true status - that of Amarr, that of God's children. For this reason is the royal flesh sacred, for the Emperor must be the ultimate example for God's flock. As for implants, for we have not yet reached our destination, and thus we must suffer hardship and pain, and thus medicine is most useful in advancing our goal. They are not natural, that is true, but in Paradise, we would not be limited by diseases and pestilence.
Cloning, however, indeed is something different, for ripping the conciousness (and possibly soul) from a body, killing it, should leave one dead. However, reinsterting this into a mass of artificially sustained cells and reanimating gets close to creation, which is not the domain of Man. This has a few important consequences: First and foremost, it is part of the Sin of Man to become - rather, wish to become - god by himself. However, as can be clearly seen that Man is no god, thus this creation, or transformation, is forcibly imperfect. No soul can be created to replace the dead, so unless the soul follows the conciousness, then truly the newly-created clone indeed is nothing more than an automaton following the divine laws of nature. Second, the individual is changed. Clone, it is, not the original. True, we all change all the time, but in cloning this transition is violent and sudden, and the new body is not grown from the old in a natural way, but the laboratories. It is not the mature body, but instead a dead - artificially sustained, though - mass that is suddenly hardwired with neural pathways and sent into motion. Third, the practice of cloning which few truly understand, perchance not fully the Jove who "gifted" the four empires with it, is not perfect in a fully practical sense that errors may happen in the cloning process in addition to the two first fundamental defects I did mention above.
Truly, thus it is just that those destined to guide should stay far from this potentially dangerous technology. For others, it is a valid question, though, whether they should make the great sacrifice if greater good can be achieved.
I do not comment the politics discussed by the letter, for I am not privy to the matters of either Councils, and thus prefer not to discuss them.
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