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They won't help us change our minds though. The problem with having people in their 90's capable of the same things as people in their 30's is that they'd hold
by polishdude20 3y ago
They won't help us change our minds though. The problem with having people in their 90's capable of the same things as people in their 30's is that they'd hold positions of power longer. Old ideas would live on much longer
- ben_w 3y agoHow can you be so confident about a hypothetical with zero examples? All the 90 year olds today are necessarily stuck with 90 year old brains.
- JoshTriplett 3y agoIndeed. And why advocate death as the solution to a problem better handled with term limits and similar mechanisms?
- throw__away7391 3y agoBecause right now you don't have the option to choose, so you try to convince yourself that the only choice you have is the one you would have picked anyway. It's quite a common phenomenon, I guess a sort of survival strategy.
- antihipocrat 3y agoMany people change their ideas as they age, the ones that don't are more noticeable and reinforce the stereotype.
- PeterisP 3y agoThere is some truth in saying that science progresses one funeral at a time, and in political structures some of the most effective checks on abuse of power is that even the most shrewd dictator eventually dies. Longevity has its benefits, but if the powerful people can become effectively immortal, then that does have some risks of dystopian stagnation. Like, imagine USSR if Stalin would never die, or Salazar and Franco still holding power in Portugal and Spain, because democracy only became possible when their health failed; and lack of change at top management of megacorporations and major privately held businesses because their owners and CEOs now can be eternal.