Technology and immorality vs religion and mortality

[abaris]

Given 15 to 25 years from now the problem of mortality will be solved.

Even if this were to happen, what do you think would be the results? We would have a very small layer of rich near immortals and a sea of peasants dying like flies. Even now being poor warrants an earlier death sentence than being rich. Also, as pyrrho said, it opens a whole new can of wirms as far as population growth is involved. Some balance would have to be installed and that would most probably again feature rich nation vs poor nation, powerful nation vs weak nation. To the detriment of the latter of course.

So, if technology doesn't find ways to grow brains and empathy as well, the results of discovering immortality would be an all around disaster. Going by the state of our present civilization of course.