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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I didn't say there wouldn't be problems. There would be problems. But death is not a good solution to these problems. It's just the one we have at the moment.
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You really dont want to die, do you?
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Not dying and coming up with new solutions would be better.
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Why?
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Of course, if overpopulation is your main worry, you could suggest solutions to it - say kill off 1 in ten people at every decade birthday. Oh dear - that's what we do now - by letting them die!
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You understand the difference between "actively killing s/o" (possibly with some prejudiced selection process) and "letting them die"?
Do you want to start the selection? Do you want to be the one "living forever" with all friends and relatives gone?
I love the imagination of living forever, seeing technical progress, etc - but only in dream land. Would you like to live forever with a job you never wanted and hate? Or in a world gone apocalyptic (say a mixture between "I am legend" and "Mad Max")?
You know most dreams are not really this fantastic if you introduce reality. Why would you like to live forever?