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>I wish people were more afraid of death. Maybe we'd be doing more about it. The line has to be drawn somewhere, otherwise logically speaking we ought to force

• staticassertion 6y ago
  What line? I didn't say anything about "at all costs". I said we should work to prevent death. If I said "we should cure the flu" would you say "Well sure but we can't just cure the flu by murdering everyone" ? Like yes, I guess there's a line there?
  • xamuel 6y ago
    >I said we should work to prevent death. But we already are, in the sense that medical and safety research is constantly being conducted and there are professionals whose job is to rescue people from fires and similar disasters. There's always trade-offs though. A lot of death could be prevented by banning motor vehicles, should we do that? Of course not. In some ways, it could be argued that we're already going too far to prevent death, for example by banning doctor-assisted suicide.
    • ivalm 6y ago
      I think the argument is we aren’t spending enough on anti-aging research.
    • staticassertion 6y ago
      I believe that we are working kinda sorta well against so-called 'premature' death. But I do not believe that death is widely considered to be itself a solvable problem - this article itself starts with this defeatist statement: > Your demise is inevitable. I hope that doesn’t come as too much of a shock. There's a lot less work going into increasing our maximum lifespan that there is going into increasing our average lifespan.