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Yes, you really should die. If you want to have kids, that is. What shouldn't be is growing old and weak. That's the real pain.
by rscho 5y ago
Yes, you really should die. If you want to have kids, that is. What shouldn't be is growing old and weak. That's the real pain.
- r3trohack3r 5y agoCould you expand a bit more on why death is a desirable outcome once you procreate?
- rscho 5y agoBecause interstellar travel is probably much harder than extend people's lifespan to unreasonable extents. Your children will need room to thrive. Of course, you could argue it's others who have to die. But that seems a morally difficult position.
- r3trohack3r 5y agoI love the positive sum framing in your response. Yes earths resources are technical finite, though I’m not sure that’s true in a meaningful sense. Humans are already well past the natural carrying capacity of the planet for our species. But we’ve figured it out an have been (mostly) successful. I don’t see why that would change between now and when we get access to off planet resources. Especially if humans live forever - priorities are able to shift quite a bit when you can think longer term (what’s 100 years of effort to solve this problem compared to infinity?).
- tjpnz 5y agoI still wouldn't call death desirable outcome but having kids did start putting many things into perspective. Admittedly there's a certain comfort I take in knowing that a part of me will continue to exist here. Even if the generations that come afterwards have no memory of me as a person.