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“If you don't want to live, I respect your decision, just please don't force it on other people.“ Isn’t that the funny part? It’s fascinating to me that the pe

“If you don't want to live, I respect your decision, just please don't force it on other people.“ Isn’t that the funny part? It’s fascinating to me that the people arguing against life extension here have two main points: 1. People don’t deserve it because they are inherently bad, they are poorly optimized, are selfish agents, would exhaust their value, are incapable of managing the impact of life extension, and so on. 2. Life is meaningless without death. <—- I am willing to entertain this second idea but the first has a disciplinary puritanical feeling to it which I really don’t relate to at all. This profound pessimism is alien to me. I can’t help but feel that there are ultimately some religious undertones at play here.

titzer 6y ago
> has a disciplinary puritanical feeling to it which I really don’t relate to at all. This profound pessimism is alien to me. I can’t help but feel that there are ultimately some religious undertones at play here. You're reading into this what you want to. That is some kind of bizarre binary thinking that doesn't exist. As for "alien", there have been literally thousands of human cultures that have been erased and replaced with the current spur of "scientific" advancement that holds the world in exactly one way, a conveniently self-centered and tragically misguided one, IMHO.