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Also there’s a massive philosophical quandary in there too. If people could live for much longer then they’re likely disincentivised to procreate due to worrie
by highwaylights 3y ago
Also there’s a massive philosophical quandary in there too.
If people could live for much longer then they’re likely disincentivised to procreate due to worries of overpopulation and then, in one way of thinking, you’re hypothetically depriving a line of offspring of lifetimes they’d otherwise have if you’d had what we consider a normal lifespan now.
Yes I realise there are probably an infinite number of takes on this, I’m just pointing out one possible way of looking at it for the sake of saying not all technological advances have universally positive outcomes.
- raducu 3y ago> you’re hypothetically depriving a line of offspring of lifetimes they’d otherwise have. I don't want to open a can of worms, but... about 40 milion people are aborted each year...
- gorbachev 3y agoI think a majority of the people who want to live "forever" are the types of megalomaniacs who want to populate the earth with their own kind of uber mench, and will actually have more children than an average person.
- wiseowise 3y agoYou read too much fiction. There are millions of people who would love to just live their life.
- ETH_start 3y agoThe vast majority of healthcare spending is incurred at the end of life, because when death really approaches, almost everyone wants to avoid it. People who are explicitly pursuing immortality are just thinking on a long-term basis instead of only reacting once they face the reality of mortality, in their impending death. But amongst the popular left, there seems to be an aversion to competency and rationality, as they are symbolically linked to high status and social dominance. And so those who work deliberatively to end the scourge of aging and illness from humanity are—due to their displaying a rational results-oriented mindset—disdained.