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A life without death is dystopia.
by tester457 4y ago
A life without death is dystopia.
- Mistletoe 4y agoWe don’t really know that though, do we? Imagine how much more people would worry about climate change if they were going to be here to experience the wrath of it. The wrath of running out of oil, the wrath of the oceans and air polluted. Old people know it is real and coming for their descendants, they just don’t care because they won’t be here. Most humans care about things that will directly affect them only.
- tester457 4y agoI worry it will end up that the older than old rich will trash this planet for resources and leave, like in "Don't Look Up" or "Elysium."
- ben_w 4y agoIf it turns out to be more dystopian than the reality of watching our loved ones fade and disappear while we ourselves grow weak and fade, we can always bring death back. We can't bring the dead back, though.
- zokier 4y ago> If it turns out to be more dystopian than the reality of watching our loved ones fade and disappear while we ourselves grow weak and fade, we can always bring death back. Usually the dystopian aspects of immortality revolve around power imbalance/inequality; in such scenarios its not obvious that death can be brought back
- ben_w 4y agoIn fiction, perhaps. In history, literal slaves have overthrown their captors, and the powerful often have cognitive blind spots.
- nradov 4y agoThat's fine. There's no need to bring the dead back. New people are born every day.
- ben_w 4y agoSaying that's fine, let alone for that reason, is so fundamentally at odds with every aspect of my experience of reality you might as well have said សូម សម្លាប់ ពួក គេ ទាំង អស់ ព្រះ នឹង ទទួល ស្គាល់ ប្រជារាស្ត្រ របស់ ព្រះអង្គ.