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Just going based on the title here. But if we let people live to 1000, that will deny many people the right to have children. The long term consequences of su
by awt 16y ago
Just going based on the title here. But if we let people live to 1000, that will deny many people the right to have children. The long term consequences of such a change could be a drastic slow down in technological innovation as the super-elderly are able to accumulate vast sums of wealth. Just think of the advantage you'd have as a 500 y/o over a 25 y/o.
- gte910h 16y agoChildbearing age may also be increased though. SO if you can have a kid at 200 who's perfectly healthy, why would you necessarily spurt one out at 20?
- pixelbath 16y agoI don't think the parent post was talking about childbearing age; I interpreted it as being more of a society-imposed restriction based on the practicality of having a population that can be up to 1000 years old.
- gte910h 16y agoI'd say that's not really going to be an issue. Children, as is, are already encouraged by tax subsidies. You'd at worse have to take those away; people the world over are already limiting the birth rate (even places where birth control and a nice standard of living are unavailable). Additionally, the SENS plan isn't about a magical 1000yr life expectancy treatment, it's about increasing the rate of life expectancy gain up to an excess of 10 years per decade (for non-violent/non-accident deaths). If you can live to 1k, and give birth for most if not all of your life, I think many people would think "being a parent" is something that could be put off a couple decades/centuries. Birth is not a pleasant process, and women aren't usually eager to have 10 kids.
- crystalis 16y agoWhy is childbirth a right? Would you accept a trade of a parent's life for a child's life, perhaps with a time delay? There's also several financial methods that could be used to prevent undesirable wealth accumulation.
- joubert 16y agoYou, and nobody else, own your body. I.e., nobody should be able to say you're not allowed to have children.
- crystalis 16y agoYou've simply asserted that, though. I own my own body, does that mean nobody should be able to say I'm not allowed to, say, defecate? What if I'm positioned directly above them? Simply being able to do something doesn't make it a right. (I, and nobody else, own my car. I.e., nobody should be able to say I'm not allowed to max out the speedometer?)
- awt 16y agoYou may be right -- it is not currently guaranteed under the constitution that I'm aware of. A trade off would be ok but hard to enforce, as right now we don't even let people want to die, die legally for the most part.