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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading by jimrandomh on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @01:53PM (#16757175)
(1) Are you saying that immortality is bad because it's infinitely good? That seems like an argument for bringing immortality to everyone as soon as possible.

(2) I'm saying that one of the reasons why death is viewed as cowardly is because that belief is promoted by generals in order to make their soldiers more willing to die in battle. If that's where the idea comes from, then we should reject it, because willingness to die in battle is no longer a good thing.

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Re:MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading by nostromo95 on Thursday April 05, 2018 @06:27PM (#16769329)
Yes, I’m saying that because immortality is infinitely good, the inequality of some people (super-rich) getting it while others (the poor) don’t is (infinitely?) more unnacceptable than any wealth inequality there has been in the past.
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