(May 29, 2016 at 9:19 am)Little Rik Wrote:(May 28, 2016 at 2:11 pm)Stimbo Wrote: This, in spades. She would most likely have died if it happened even twenty years earlier, let alone a century. Go back just a little further and even things we hardly notice today, such as abscesses or minor cuts, meant getting the invitations ready for another funeral. We're at the stage now where people have had their hearts stopped and rested to let them repair themselves. There are people walking around who owe their very birth to medical progress.
Of course Stim.
There is only one life so if you live longer that is progress.
Of course, of course.
I never thought about it.
I never said anything about there being only one life, you gibbering trainwreck. That's your projection onto me, and I'm not letting you strawman me with it. In fact, you've never asked me what I believe about any of this; all you've ever done is tell me.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'