RE: "The first person to live to [200, 300, 500, 1000] has already been born"
December 14, 2015 at 1:35 pm
(December 14, 2015 at 1:19 pm)Rhythm Wrote: We'd have to solve an even wider range of potentially more difficult problems. I wouldn't be worried in the short term /w regards to resources...but there's no such thing as a short term to an immortal race. I suppose I just can;t see it leading anywhere but other choices that I couldn't possibly make or sign off on. Things I wouldn't trade for immortality.
Besides, I'm already going to live forever, or at least as close to forever as it matters to me. It'll be my genetic boot on the throats of the oppressed masses soon enough.
I'm pretty sure you would think differently if you actually had the choice to live forever. Not taking that cure would be paramount to comitting suicide, essentially, just because you're a little scared about some complex issues your society will have to face at that point.