How?By “most people” I’m implying no one I’m not suggesting there are some people who deserve extra life and some who don’t. Sorry if that isn’t clear where I’m from that would be implicitly understood.
My point was that you’re thinking that you know enough to decide that for everyone. You’re also bringing in a concept of need (need for what?) when I think the relevant question is whether people want to live longer.
And I’m including myself in that no one too obviously! I don’t know whether I need to make that explicit but I just realised you said selfish as well as elitist.
Ok I don’t think I would use the word selfish in that context- arrogant or misguided maybe- so I wasn’t sure what you meant. Anyway a lot of people when they are nearing the end of life say that they are happy to accept death, many very old people even wish for death. Obviously people have regrets but I think you would have these regardless of life span. I’m not disputing the fact that many people do wish for immortality or massively increased life span.
I brought up the question of need because of the possible negative impact that the invention of immortality could have on the human race and the rest of the world. If it is just a question of desire then the possible consequences have to be more closely scrutinised than if it actually served a purpose.
I find that to be a stunningly selfish and elitist point of view. How do you know, and why are you deciding for them?
How?By “most people” I’m implying no one I’m not suggesting there are some people who deserve extra life and some who don’t. Sorry if that isn’t clear where I’m from that would be implicitly understood.
My point was that you’re thinking that you know enough to decide that for everyone. You’re also bringing in a concept of need (need for what?) when I think the relevant question is whether people want to live longer.
And I’m including myself in that no one too obviously! I don’t know whether I need to make that explicit but I just realised you said selfish as well as elitist.
To my mind, the selfishness was that you thought you could reasonably make that sort of decision for the whole human race.
Ok I don’t think I would use the word selfish in that context- arrogant or misguided maybe- so I wasn’t sure what you meant. Anyway a lot of people when they are nearing the end of life say that they are happy to accept death, many very old people even wish for death. Obviously people have regrets but I think you would have these regardless of life span. I’m not disputing the fact that many people do wish for immortality or massively increased life span.
I brought up the question of need because of the possible negative impact that the invention of immortality could have on the human race and the rest of the world. If it is just a question of desire then the possible consequences have to be more closely scrutinised than if it actually served a purpose.
Oops just replied to myself but meant to reply to you.