Beware inferential distance. “Everyone should be immortal” includes a lot of unstated assumptions that the person you say it to may not be aware of. They could easily think you mean “Everyone should basically be as they are now, except live forever”, which would mean either malthusian misery or draconian restrictions on reproduction. Unless you have already discussed tranhumanism with them, this is a terrible benchmark.
That’s not the way I usually phrase it—I don’t know how that would fit into a conversation anyway. I was just summarising the subject matter. Sorry for the confusion.
Beware inferential distance. “Everyone should be immortal” includes a lot of unstated assumptions that the person you say it to may not be aware of. They could easily think you mean “Everyone should basically be as they are now, except live forever”, which would mean either malthusian misery or draconian restrictions on reproduction. Unless you have already discussed tranhumanism with them, this is a terrible benchmark.
That’s not the way I usually phrase it—I don’t know how that would fit into a conversation anyway. I was just summarising the subject matter. Sorry for the confusion.