Justice De Thézier

Justice De Thézier (born April 20, 1975) is a Canadian social entrepreneur and creative professional.

The son of Haitian immigrants, De Thézier was born and grew up in Montreal. A progressive primarily concerned with creating awareness of community perspectives on the right to human enhancement, De Thézier sought to promote a middle ground between technorealism and techno-utopianism known as "democratic transhumanism" through discussion, education, and art. De Thézier contributed to the Cyborg Democracy web portal and blog.

In 2003, De Thézier founded the Quebec Transhumanist Association, an activist and artistic collective which promotes transhumanism in Quebec, which he closed down in January 2008. From January 2006 to January 2008, De Thézier served on the board of directors of the World Transhumanist Association, an international non-governmental organization which advocates the ethical use of human enhancement technologies.

On January 1, 2008, Justice De Thézier publicly renounced his adherence to the transhumanist ideology and movement. As his driving justification, he cited what some consider to be the three minimum constituents (and "flaws") without which transhumanism would not be what it is:

1. An uncritical support for technology in general and fringe science in particular;
2. A distortive "us vs them" tribe-like mentality and identity; and
3. A vulnerability to unrealistic utopian and dystopian "future hype".

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fr:Justice De Thézier