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One reason why we age and die - might be because we(any living being) want to evolve, and that pressurizes us to cross breed and give birth to new generation be
by mkagenius 11y ago
One reason why we age and die - might be because we(any living being) want to evolve, and that pressurizes us to cross breed and give birth to new generation before we die and finally die and not hog up all the resources ourselves. And let the better generation live on.
That natural strategy might have become suboptimal since the progress in science.
- kolinko 11y agoYou might be mistaking cause for a reason here.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- mkagenius 11y agoNo no, cause would be something like length of telomere being short or something. The reason (evolutionary reason) would be that nature needs to clear the previous generation in order to make room for a newer and better generation.
- Retra 11y agoEvolution doesn't work like that. You don't consider newer generations 'better', you consider the survivors better. So you're assuming your conclusion and burying it in human moral terms, which evolution has no obligation to apply.