RE: "The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born"
December 14, 2015 at 12:01 pm
(December 14, 2015 at 6:16 am)Amine Wrote: "Old people are people too, so the fact that aging only kills old people is not a reason not to be working on defeating it."
That quote I just heard from Aubrey de Grey is a game changer, I think. It reveals an unexamined bigotry we have. We think it is okay that they die, because they are old. That's actually incredibly bigoted.
What? That's not bigotted, it's just the law of nature. Everything that is alive wears out, gets old, and dies.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh