What is the most cost-effective way of keeping everyone alive?
Nobody knows any way of doing that. Some people are researching how to achieve radical longevity, but there is currently nothing to show for it.
We have to “let people die”, because we have no power to do anything else. A life saved is but a death postponed. We can do many things about avoidably early deaths, but resources are finite and there are still choices to be made.
Thanks for your comment. In workshopping this post, I definitely need to work on clarity :) I certainly wasn’t meaning to refer to life-extension—I’m meaning the state of the world as it is, where we (most of us at least) don’t find it acceptable to let people die of starvation from poverty (as evolution would have us do).
I’ll add couple of edits now just to clarify that, as you’re not the first person that wasn’t clear to.
Nobody knows any way of doing that. Some people are researching how to achieve radical longevity, but there is currently nothing to show for it.
We have to “let people die”, because we have no power to do anything else. A life saved is but a death postponed. We can do many things about avoidably early deaths, but resources are finite and there are still choices to be made.
Thanks for your comment. In workshopping this post, I definitely need to work on clarity :) I certainly wasn’t meaning to refer to life-extension—I’m meaning the state of the world as it is, where we (most of us at least) don’t find it acceptable to let people die of starvation from poverty (as evolution would have us do).
I’ll add couple of edits now just to clarify that, as you’re not the first person that wasn’t clear to.