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It is the fundamental process of life and is natural and beautiful. What could be more amazing than transcending death? How about transcending our own desires
by JacksonGariety 12y ago
It is the fundamental process of life and is natural and beautiful.
What could be more amazing than transcending death?
How about transcending our own desires to control nature. Maybe learning to leave things be? That would be a real feat.
- vbuterin 12y agoOkay how about I'll send you a contract to transfer all of your property to me and then you'll be free to spend the rest of your life in the Amazon rainforest. If you get malaria, don't worry, it's natural. Just learn to leave things be. Exactly the same argument applies here.
- eli_gottlieb 12y ago>How about transcending our own desires to control nature. Maybe learning to leave things be? That would be a real feat. That's actually not a feat at all. There's no grander harmony of nature that needs to be preserved by killing people off at a fixed age. Hell, there never was: we evolved, suffered an ice age, drove the large land mammals to extinction, and emerged from an ice age, all before even inventing writing or agriculture. Nature is the cruelest thing in the world.
- raldi 12y agoYour comment could apply equally to any medical research; do you believe any medical research is a good idea? If so, how do you decide where to draw the line?
- lotsofmangos 12y agoIt is the fundamental process of life No it isn't, otherwise you wouldn't get things like hydra or the immortal jellyfish. Even lobsters appear to die through predation rather than through aging.