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This sounds like a desperate attempt to cope with death. We can find better ways to encourage change than literally dying. If people lived indefinitely but soc
by xvector 5y ago
This sounds like a desperate attempt to cope with death. We can find better ways to encourage change than literally dying.
If people lived indefinitely but society was a bit stagnant, and you pressed a button to kill 100M random people a year to "encourage change", you'd be regarded as insane, and rightfully so.
Death is not the solution to our problems, just like throwing your computer in the trash isn't a solution to a crashing program.
- 8note 5y agoDeath is the only working solution we've got. Once you've solved the other problems, you can work on death
- xvector 5y agoMy example > If people lived indefinitely but society was a bit stagnant, and you pressed a button to kill 100M random people a year to "encourage change", you'd be regarded as insane, and rightfully so. highlights that it's baseless to put off solving death or even using it as a solution.