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I really loathe the hubris of modern people who think we shouldn't die like everyone did for millennia before us. Yes, we live longer and we have better medicin

I really loathe the hubris of modern people who think we shouldn't die like everyone did for millennia before us. Yes, we live longer and we have better medicine, stop trying to live forever.

cannonpr 2y ago
I loathe the hubris of modern people that feel they should impose their way of life and morals on others.
- opvouste11 2y ago
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  - tavavex 2y ago
    OP: "Stop trying to live forever" Commenter1: "Stop telling others what to do with no justification" Commenter2: "Did you just tell us to stop? Sounds like you're the real problem here, 1"
foobiekr 2y ago
"you should die because our ancestors did" "you should be/keep slaves because our ancestors were/did" etc. Your logic is weird and false. There's nothing holy about dying.
- littlekey 2y ago
  Dying is one of the most holy things there is. Every major religion is deeply concerned with the question of mortality and imo would collapse without it. Christianity means basically nothing without the death of Christ, Buddhism nothing without the cycle of reincarnation, etc. Whether that's good or bad is a different question, but the point is getting rid of death is not a trivial thing. It would cause such huge changes in the human experience that I think we'd cease to be human and would become some other, different thing.
ryandrake 2y ago
People suffered through disease for millennia, but that doesn't mean we should stop making medicine. People did agriculture with horse-drawn tools for millennia, but that doesn't mean we should keep doing it.
MetaWhirledPeas 2y ago
I don't blame people for trying to live longer, but I can't help feeling like there are underlying flaws within us that would really dampen the potential of immortality. Namely the inability to get along with one another, and our unwillingness to help one another. Immortality would be a neat trick but it can't solve war and it can't solve starvation.
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I really loathe the hubris of modern people who think we shouldn't die like everyone did for millennia before us. Yes, we live longer and we have better medicine, stop trying to live forever.

cannonpr 2y ago

I loathe the hubris of modern people that feel they should impose their way of life and morals on others.

opvouste11 2y ago
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- tavavex 2y ago
  OP: "Stop trying to live forever" Commenter1: "Stop telling others what to do with no justification" Commenter2: "Did you just tell us to stop? Sounds like you're the real problem here, 1"

foobiekr 2y ago

"you should die because our ancestors did" "you should be/keep slaves because our ancestors were/did" etc. Your logic is weird and false. There's nothing holy about dying.

littlekey 2y ago
Dying is one of the most holy things there is. Every major religion is deeply concerned with the question of mortality and imo would collapse without it. Christianity means basically nothing without the death of Christ, Buddhism nothing without the cycle of reincarnation, etc. Whether that's good or bad is a different question, but the point is getting rid of death is not a trivial thing. It would cause such huge changes in the human experience that I think we'd cease to be human and would become some other, different thing.

ryandrake 2y ago

People suffered through disease for millennia, but that doesn't mean we should stop making medicine. People did agriculture with horse-drawn tools for millennia, but that doesn't mean we should keep doing it.

MetaWhirledPeas 2y ago

I don't blame people for trying to live longer, but I can't help feeling like there are underlying flaws within us that would really dampen the potential of immortality. Namely the inability to get along with one another, and our unwillingness to help one another. Immortality would be a neat trick but it can't solve war and it can't solve starvation.

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