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How would everyone win? Not having deaths to offset birth grows the population even faster. Unless such a thing were more likely to produce people capable of so
by tomc1985 10y ago
How would everyone win? Not having deaths to offset birth grows the population even faster. Unless such a thing were more likely to produce people capable of solving humanity's imminent crises, within a decade or two you'd see life getting a lot worse if immortality went mainstream
- BadassFractal 10y agoAssuming quality of life is high enough for most of the world, births will automatically adjust themselves. If you know you have a couple of centuries to decide whether you want a kid or not, you don't have to rush into it, you have options.
- larsiusprime 10y agoI'm a bit skeptical that the human sex drive is going to automatically adjust itself downwards at the same rate as the death rate suddenly plunging, even with modern contraception.
- foobarchu 10y agoPeople don't rush into it because they're worried about time, they rush into because: - its an accident - they want some sort of benefit, e.g. farm help or gov assistants - biological urges Making people immortal wouldn't affect any of those. Which do you think is worse for the poor who tend to rush into kids: a lifetime of poverty, or an eternity of it?
- BadassFractal 10y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBT5EQt348 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBT5EQt348
- tomc1985 10y agoNevermind that it feels good?