Tronith87

Tronith87 t1_j607k59 wrote

No it doesn't. Immortality does not mean you don't have to eat and drink and rest. We don't have the resources to care for billions of immortal humans. We will still freeze and starve to death in the harshness of space even though our cells are replacing themselves as quickly as they die.

If this plan does come to fruition, we already know that the richest and most powerful people will use the technology and regular people will not be able to afford access to it. It will become the most extreme form of inequality. A small number of the population will dominant not only finances but time itself. Their offspring will of course also be afforded immortality and there will be ruling dynasties for eternity of the same family unless they are killed.

It's a horrible, horrible plan and I truly pray that we kill ourselves off or reduce in population to the point where this will never become reality.

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Tronith87 t1_j5zr1sk wrote

You're more optimistic than I am about solving our issues that are likely to kill off most of us in the next century. So do you think that all 8 billion and counting of us should be immortal? How about the children of those immortal adults? We're going to literally run out of room in less than a century if that's the case. Unless you believe we're going to somehow colonise mars or the moon.

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Tronith87 t1_j5yig0e wrote

Eventually all things die. That is the natural order. And my concerns are many. Look who’s running the show into the ground right now, old men for the most part. Imagine having policies set by a 300-year-old who never bothered to change their mind about anything for centuries.

I’m not going to go on with all the hundreds of problems with humanity becoming immortal and instead say that it’s likely just a pipe dream anyway.

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