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The whole longevity movement is also mostly driven by fear of death. OK, so you take every drug under the sun in the hope of living another day. In order to w
by riehwvfbk 3y ago
The whole longevity movement is also mostly driven by fear of death. OK, so you take every drug under the sun in the hope of living another day. In order to what? Be a wage slave for longer? Spend more time on Medicare?
- matheusmoreira 3y ago> In order to what? Survive until humans start colonizing space.
- unsupp0rted 3y agoYeah why don’t we blow up the planet today instead of another day of wage slavery or Medicare? The idea is to keep living and stay healthier longer, because living is good and the future is bright.
- riehwvfbk 3y agoThat's quite a jump, and it's very telling. The planet would actually be much better off without humans living on it. Why blow it up? Leave it to squirrels and manatees and so on.
- unsupp0rted 3y agoThe planet doesn't care one way or the other
- fragmede 3y agoThat's a depressing viewpoint, since that's true, even if you don't manage to find the fountain of youth. Life has joy and meaning. If you have a purpose, whatever it is, then every singlenday longer you're alive is another day you get to help people, to educate them, to heal them, to ease their suffering, do good for the world, spend time with friends and family; whatever!
- keybored 3y agoIt’s interesting how my one and only motivator for these things would be the things you mention. I could imagine discovering a zest for life where I decide to take on such longevity advice. On the other hand in the modern age there are now thousands of subcultures for all kinds of things where the people who practice them must surely treat it at least like a hobby (meaning a serious pursuit). So I wonder: are they doing it as a means to an end because life-is-great? Or has it taken on its own life and it’s now being done for the sake of it? There’s just an overwhelming amount of information and advice out there from all these subcultures.[1] What would I do if I found a burning meaning in life? Maybe adopt an eclectic set of advice and lifestyles from all these subcultures as a means to the end of living longer and better? [1] And I know: eat well, exercise... the basics are not complicated. Intellectually speaking.
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- keybored 3y agoYou really went there?
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- ALittleLight 3y agoYou say that like it's a bad thing. Vast majority of people don't want to die or grow sick and enfeebled with age. It's like observing that the reason people usually don't leap off tall buildings is because they fear falling and death - true, but obvious. If people prefer being alive and healthy, and they obviously and overwhelmingly do, then we should be looking for solutions. If people want to escape the drudgery of work they are free not to take whatever medications or treatments are discovered - but the tiny minority that prefer death to labor shouldn't restrict the rest of us.
- riehwvfbk 3y agoThis is very selfish. As the population gets older we'll have fewer and fewer workers supporting all the healthy and long-lived old farts. The young will be taxed to within an inch of their life, causing their lives to be more miserable than they already are. Before you get that dopamine hit from hitting that downvote button, ask yourself this: can more or fewer young people afford to own a home now? Why? Are they really that much more "lazy" than their parents generation?
- ALittleLight 3y agoNot at all. The only reason we support the elderly now is because they're unable to work. In a world of negligible senescence the old will support themselves.
- riehwvfbk 3y agoSo overpopulation via geriatrics is good but overpopulation via birth rate is bad? What's the benefit of running the planet-wide distributed human computer with ancient parts held together by drugs rather than new replacement units?
- ALittleLight 3y agoThe benefit is that you and your loved ones don't sicken and die with age.
- renewiltord 3y agoLiving is nice. I like living. Living longer means I spend more time with my children and more time with my grandchildren. This is nice too.
- weregiraffe 3y agoWhat's this shit-posting driven by, fear of hearing your own thoughts?
- riehwvfbk 3y agoWell, you took time out of your day to respond to it, so let me ask the same question: what drove that decision? I wanted to provide a counterpoint. A lot of people will do anything to hang on to life by their fingernails or teeth. But is it worth it?