"The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born"

[Excited Penguin]

Sounds like we should just let nature do its job.

Immortality would open up a whooooole can of worms.

If you want to let nature do its job, skip the antibiotics next time you get an infection and refuse to wear eyeglasses or similar such things.

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1. I know. That's why I said it concerns all of us. There's no disagreement here, just a misunderstanding, except for the part where you wrongly said that it's bigoted to say that of old people. It's not. As things are, unless we change that, we'll all get to be old, and so the idiots who dismiss the death of old people as less important are really talking about their own too, ultimately.

So you're saying you read his book, then? If not, do read it. It's more than worth your time, I assure you.

Haven't read the book but have seen his @google talk about it, not that this is any substitute. I'd like to read it but my list is long.. perhaps you could say what is so compelling about his case.

What is bigotry? To me it seems clear that saying different rules apply to some group because of an irrelevant distinction is the definition of bigotry. If I said it were wrong to look for a cure for a fatal disease that only (for example) deaf people could get, that would be bigotry. The mechanics in that situation are exactly the same.

I couldn't. You would have to read the book for yourself. It wouldn't be fair since he put so much effort into it.

I'm pretty sure after having read it your current reading list will seem trivial by comparison. If saying that can't get you to read it, sadly nothing will.