Caledonian: If a longer lifespan is bad, surely a shorter one must be good? It would be a pretty unlikely coincidence if the current average of 67.2 years just happened to be morally optimal—and even if that coincidence were true now, it won’t be for much longer.
So if you really believe what you’re saying, then stop extending your own life; go kill yourself and knock that number down a notch. But there’s the rub—you don’t really believe it, and I’d bet that as soon as radical life extension comes on the market you’ll go for it even while ridiculing others doing the same.
You just use irrational ideas as a way of sounding “cool”, because there are all too many moronic humans who eat that crap up, thinking that anything must be right if it goes against the “establishment”. If a poll was done, probably more than half of all people would claim to be non-conformists.
Obviously you’re not going to find very many such idiots here, so who’s your real audience? Do you show your posts to all your (nominally) progress-hating friends, gushing over how you dealt such a huge blow to The Man? Or are you such a sad, pathetic creature that you do all this purely to prove your own coolness to yourself?
Caledonian: If a longer lifespan is bad, surely a shorter one must be good? It would be a pretty unlikely coincidence if the current average of 67.2 years just happened to be morally optimal—and even if that coincidence were true now, it won’t be for much longer.
So if you really believe what you’re saying, then stop extending your own life; go kill yourself and knock that number down a notch. But there’s the rub—you don’t really believe it, and I’d bet that as soon as radical life extension comes on the market you’ll go for it even while ridiculing others doing the same.
You just use irrational ideas as a way of sounding “cool”, because there are all too many moronic humans who eat that crap up, thinking that anything must be right if it goes against the “establishment”. If a poll was done, probably more than half of all people would claim to be non-conformists.
Obviously you’re not going to find very many such idiots here, so who’s your real audience? Do you show your posts to all your (nominally) progress-hating friends, gushing over how you dealt such a huge blow to The Man? Or are you such a sad, pathetic creature that you do all this purely to prove your own coolness to yourself?