John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an imagined future'

Re:John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an... by polishdude20 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @09:32PM (#24914038)

I think death is at the heart of what makes life worth it and enjoyable. Imagine, at the extreme, we find a cure for death. What happens then? Overpopulation at the simplest. I can see how this can quickly lead to life being worse than death if played out to the extreme.

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Re:John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an... by lccarrasco on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @09:39PM (#24914085)

I believe that the cure for death would not be distributed evenly at first, and by the time everyone has access to it, there are two options:

1.- We haven't solved the problems caused by overpopulation, and in that case standards of living will drop and people will either have less children or choose to end their lives voluntarily.

2.- We have solved them and there is no longer any issue.

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Re:John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an... by IggleSniggle on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @12:52AM (#24915369)

What about 3) standard of living will drop and people will have their lives ended involuntarily (ie war)?

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Re:John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an... by hombre_fatal on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @02:01AM (#24915725)

We can't even imagine the new ethics and rituals of a human world where immortality was on offer, but it's hard to imagine something as boring as overpopulation snuffing them out.

It's kinda like who could've predicted that we'd be arguing about gender/queer theory when the first nukes fell on us.

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