If I am lucky enough to be eternally financially secure and healthy, then I’d like to live to the life expectancy of everyone else. this is taking into account cryonics. If it becomes ubiquitous to live very long, via any means, then I’d like to live just as long. If in 2010, the average adult male lived to be 30 years old, I wouldn’t want to live to be 200.
This is really interesting. Do you have a dispreference for uniqueness in other things, too? Do you think that societies are optimized for the average lifespans of their inhabitants and wouldn’t be able to deal with a longer-lived outlying specimen? You specified “male”—if males lived 30 years and females got to be a thousand, would you still want to live to be only 30?
I personally just think that everyone should be given the same chance to live a long and happy life. I don’t think anyone should be “privileged” enough to live longer than anyone else, simply because they have the financial means to do so.
I do think societies are optimized for their average inhabitant lifespan. If a group of “super humans” came about, I think that they’d be met with extreme opposition from other “normal” people. If you’ve ever read a history boook, or watched the news, then you’re already aware of the numerous examples prejudice (that often lead to violence/genocide) for those who are different, be it ethnicity, creed, gender, or sexual preference.
Probably, I wouldn’t want to go around being the “freakishly immortal” male, I imagine it’d reduce my chances of finding adequate mates, and/or fitting into society. As irrational as that sounds, I quite like being social/normal.
I personally just think that everyone should be given the same chance to live a long and happy life. I don’t think anyone should be “privileged” enough to live longer than anyone else, simply because they have the financial means to do so.
Should we give up antibiotics because some people can’t afford them?
Well, if you were the freakishly immortal male, nobody would (probably) be able to tell until you were the far side of thirty; so while it might or might not help, it doesn’t seem like it’d hurt, in the finding-mates department.
So at what point would you like to die no matter how well you’re doing?
If I am lucky enough to be eternally financially secure and healthy, then I’d like to live to the life expectancy of everyone else. this is taking into account cryonics. If it becomes ubiquitous to live very long, via any means, then I’d like to live just as long. If in 2010, the average adult male lived to be 30 years old, I wouldn’t want to live to be 200.
This is really interesting. Do you have a dispreference for uniqueness in other things, too? Do you think that societies are optimized for the average lifespans of their inhabitants and wouldn’t be able to deal with a longer-lived outlying specimen? You specified “male”—if males lived 30 years and females got to be a thousand, would you still want to live to be only 30?
I personally just think that everyone should be given the same chance to live a long and happy life. I don’t think anyone should be “privileged” enough to live longer than anyone else, simply because they have the financial means to do so.
I do think societies are optimized for their average inhabitant lifespan. If a group of “super humans” came about, I think that they’d be met with extreme opposition from other “normal” people. If you’ve ever read a history boook, or watched the news, then you’re already aware of the numerous examples prejudice (that often lead to violence/genocide) for those who are different, be it ethnicity, creed, gender, or sexual preference.
Probably, I wouldn’t want to go around being the “freakishly immortal” male, I imagine it’d reduce my chances of finding adequate mates, and/or fitting into society. As irrational as that sounds, I quite like being social/normal.
Should we give up antibiotics because some people can’t afford them?
Well, if you were the freakishly immortal male, nobody would (probably) be able to tell until you were the far side of thirty; so while it might or might not help, it doesn’t seem like it’d hurt, in the finding-mates department.