well, maybe ull stay alive but without some parts of ur body
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eventually yes, but a man is not measured on how many games he won, but whom he gifts his account to after he dies.
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Die? Ahahahhahahahahahahaah. No, you're not going to die, my little lamb. You're going to beg to die, and I'm not gonna listen.
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The way humans are right now, it's good that we don't have a fix for it.
Knowing that we will die at some point is one of the very few things that makes us behave, humans are rotten, bad. We need to evolve past a lot of our shortcomings before we should be able to "live forever".
There are so many problems we would face if we just stopped to die of age right now.
For example, we would have to stop procreating like we do now, we don't have the space or the resources to keep that up.
But who would be "allowed" to procreate? Obviously we can't trust that people just stop.. it would have to be enforced.. but how? Across the World?
In general you are right, we should look for it.
But i can see why people wouldn't want to "fix it" just yet.
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That's an utter load of crap. You just put "one of the few things that makes us behave" and "humans are rotten" in the same sentence. It's akin to those religious people who think that atheists just go around raping and killing everyone because they apparently have no moral code to follow.
Death penalty would fix that problem (which has nothing to do with how long people can live).
Overpopulation is already becoming a problem regardless of natural death. So I image that we would have solutions by the time we stop aging.
That's the nature of our progression I think. We don't unify globally and prioritize our problems. Though I suspect with increasing globalization that we will be.
Different groups of people just work on what they want to, and we've been working on reversing aging for some time already.
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Let's not talk about religion, that would just get messy.
I'm just saying that it's easier to teach the next generation how to be better than the last one, without the last 20 generations still being around doing whatever they learned was okay to do back in the day.
Maybe i'm just wrong, maybe we get wiser by living for longer and evolve that way. I guess i just can't stand the idea that a few of the people that are around now, will still be around in 300 years.
Death penalty is far from being accepted all around the world though. It's pretty much the opposite. Yeah it would fix it, but last time i checked, everyone is fighting to get rid of death penalty's.
Well, it's easy to just assume that everything will work out, but you are probably right, we should have found a way by then. Depending on how long it takes, we might be working on populating other planets, or creating space stations big enough to serve as a Home for quite a few people.
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But they won't since we'll still have a legal system (even though it's not perfect). People certainly tend to get mellower as they get older.
Death penalty isn't accepted now, but that doesn't mean it can't be reintroduced or that we won't have a better way of dealing with these issues. What about good people being around in 300 years? Innovators and inventors etc?
I guess it's too optimistic, but when I look at the global effort for Greenhouse gas reduction I think we're increasingly working together to solve problems. Plus medical technology is improving as exponentially as digital tech is.
If we have stopped aging by then and haven't figured out how to deal with it then they'll probably just bench it until we do.
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Nobody will benefit from living forever?
Just a rudimentary list, I guess:
social security services (it'd break the GDP, which is already happening) - the only solution to it if people were theoretically going to live hundreds of years/immortal would be to disable it altogether
viable workforce % of population - most people retire in their 60s, and some countries are pushing for 70s now because of aforementioned looming social security budgets
over-consumption and overpopulation - theoretically this planet can create sustainable amounts of food to more than cover the entire population as of today, but poverty is still a huge issue due to economic discrepancies because of increasing globalization and the mistaken belief that every country is born equal. If the population was to never die, this planet would be fucked.
That's not going into the philosophical debate of whether your mind would be prepared for you to witness so many changes within your lifespan, or whether you'd want to in the first place if you were going to be trapped in an aging body regardless.
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Well you already posted a solution to your social security issue, so I'll leave that.
People retire because they are old and less able to work.
Over-consumption and huge waste is something that is being worked on, starting with the realization that we are highly inefficient in recent decades.
Overpopulation is a problem that's already being worked on now, so if we haven't come up with solutions by the time we stop aging then we're fucked regardless.
None of those 3 issues are unsolvable, and hardly mean that nobody will benefit from living forever.
Going into a debate like that is pointless since we don't know. Why aren't so many people killing themselves at 55 if they don't want to live longer? I think you underestimate peoples desire to live.
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Yeah, but would that be possible for a) mass market production, b) worldwide distribution, c) public/societal acceptance?
Going into a debate like that is pointless since we don't know.
I dunno man, you seem insistent that the future you think is very, very possible without considering all factors involved.
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I think a and b can be figured out as we already are with increasing population and globalization. As for c I'm not sure if most people would accept it, probably not right away.
We've worked that way for many things. Nuclear power, internet, motor vehicles were all made without considering all the factors.
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